The period 1900 to 1925 found India gathering strength to challenge the British rule. This quest as not yet clearly articulated and cohesive, yet the dynamism of the age was perceptible in the force of the verbal articulation of Swami Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita, Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bipin Chandra Pal, Sarojini Naidu, Annie Besant, Madan Mohan Mal Malaviya, Motilal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Maulana Azad and Rabindranath Tagore. This quarter saw tumultuous events all around the globe. I in which David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson and Henry Cabot Lodge played vital roles. The next quarter from 1926 to 1950 shifted the focus to World War II and the principal actors Stalin, Mussolini, Trotsky, Hitler, Churchill and General Montgomery.
Peace somehow takes away some of the firepower.
In the third quarter, from 1951 to 1975, these trends become accentuated. The struggle for independence now gained new heroes, chief among them being Kwame Nkrumah, Fidel Castro and Mujibur Rahman. Fight for human dignity and national freedom pushed s Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela into star arena. The battle of Vietnam saw Jane Honda scaling great heights of oratory. The Camelot years in the United States had its heroes . . .