Learning objective

To understand how an imperial power successfully recruited its former enemies for military service.

Learning outcomes

To have understood British attitudes towards Sikh soldiers during the first Anglo-Sikh War (1845-46).To have explained how the British successfully recruited Sikhs for military service between the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-46) and the First World War (1914-18) and how British and Sikh attitudes towards each other shifted over time.