FIRST ask each group to look at each source in turn and
decide what each artist or journalist wanted British people who saw the pictures or read the newspaper articles to think of Sikh soldiers.

THEN display the list of terms on Resource I: Slide 4 and invite suggestions for how particular words might be supported by reference to particular sources from Resource J.

NEXT, display Resource I: Slide 5 which shows the photograph of a
Sikh corporal (naik) of the British Indian Army dating from 1910. Give out a copy of this image from Resource J and ask groups to arrange the other sources from Resource J around them, placing the ones they think are more realistic compared to the photograph closest to it, and those that are least realistic further away.

LEAD a discussion about how realistic or not particular sources might be, taking suggestions from different groups and probing their reasoning by asking them to refer to detail within the sources which support that point.

NOW display an enlarged copy of the photograph of the Sikh soldier from 1910 (Resource J: Slide 5) and hand out post-it notes to groups. Within a set time ask groups to write down sentences on the notes describing what they think the artists of the sources in Resource J wanted British people to think of Sikh soldiers.

THEN ask individuals to bring up their notes in turn,
stick them around the image of the soldier, reading them out to the class as they do so.

TAKING suggestions from individual pupils, agree a single sentence which describes what British people were supposed to think of
Sikh soldiers and display this statement for future reference.

LEAD a discussion about what kind of evidence pupils might need to see to prove that:

• British people did think highly of Sikhs and other Indian soldiers;
• British propaganda was successful in its aims.