India
Today, India is a nuclear power, the largest democracy in the world, with the second fastest growing economy in the world. When Roscoe Bartlett was born, it was just part of the British Empire.
India's first war for independence was in 1857, but it failed miserably. In 1916, a lawyer known as Mahatma Gandhi began organizing the poor in campaigns of civil disobedience. Ghandhi was arrested many times and spent much of his life in British prisons, but Gandhi inspired his people. For a lawyer, he was a remarkably humble man, wearing traditional garb made of cloth he had spun himself. His self-imposed poverty and his suffering took down British rule. In 1947, the British divided the colony into an independent India and Pakistan along religious lines, against Gandhi's wishes. Five months later he was shot to death.
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