THEN continue from Resource B: Section 3, which covers 1857, the year of the Sepoy Uprising (sometimes also called the Great Indian Rebellion or the Indian Mutiny) that really threatened British rule in India.

REPEAT the previous activity in small groups for the year 1857.

ASK people to join at the crosses across the graph and include the trend across graphs in discussion. Pupils may well debate any extent to which Sikh power has made a recovery by 1857. Their kingdom of Punjab may have been conquered but Sikh soldiers were now being paid by the British, treated with respect and being trusted with defending British interests when the British were in danger of losing control of India itself. This might imply that Sikh power is stronger than it was after the Anglo-Sikh Wars of the 1840’s.

THEN conclude the narrative covering the years 1857 to 1902 in Resource B: Section 4.

REPEAT the small-group activity for the last time, asking pupils to put both crosses above the date 1902 and join up the crosses across to complete the graphs. Pupils may well decide that while British power has grown in India it has declined over all because of American and German competition, while Sikh power has grown a bit because of the regular use of Sikh soldiers worldwide.

LASTLY reveal that the Koh-i-noor diamond is still in a British crown (display Resource A: Slide 45, the crown of the late Queen Mother) and that the modern Indian government has asked for it back.

LEAD a discussion and take a vote on whether pupils think that the diamond should be returned.