When the «depressed classes «awaken to their rights and
begin the struggle for social and
economic equality, and when the members of the «aboriginal «tribes, who have been peacefully secluded for centuries from the main stream of Indian
nationalism, join with others in demanding their rights, fundamentalist groups and the monied classes oppose such moves.
As Japan
began to modernise and industrialise, the inevitable social and
economic changes led to increasingly militant
nationalism and antipathy towards the Shogunate.