How Japan’s victory in the 1907 war against Russia strengthened India’s resolve for freedom

In 1907, two years after the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War, the Indian anticolonial leader Aurobindo Ghose drew attention to the geopolitical connections between India and Asia that rendered the political freedom of India from British rule an essential precondition of Asiatic freedom as a whole. We believe that … the Time-Spirit is at work to bring about a mighty movement … that movement is the resurgence of Asia, and that the resurgence of India is not only a necessary part of the larger movement but its central need. … The position of India makes her the key of Asia….