Jetsetter500: The ball got into motion when the "sun finally set" on the British Empire. That was just after the Second World war. The people of the Indian sub-continent region got out from the yoke of British rule and stood up. Today, they are both an economic and a military force to reckon with. You may be right that it was during the past 20 years when things began to even up but the momentum began after the British were sent packing home.