What can the Koh-i-noor tell us about the British and Indian Sikhs before 1914?

Learning objective

To use the history of a single artefact in comparing how two different cultures interacted, expanded and declined in power over a specific time period.

Learning outcomes

To understand the history of the Koh-i-noor diamond between 1739 and the present.

To discuss how much British power expanded and declined in the Indian subcontinent and worldwide between 1830 and 1902.

To discuss how much Sikh power expanded and declined in the Indian subcontinent and worldwide between 1830 and 1902.

To have compared how British and Sikh power expanded and declined between 1830 and 1902.

Background knowledge

See the attachments below for details on aspects of British and Indian history.