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The painting was initially inspired by the artist's anger at the "inadequate and biased media coverage which contradicted the personal, eye witness accounts, that were filtering through from the Sikh community in India at the time and, later, the various Amnesty International and Human Rights Movement reports".
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News: Coventry Sikh War Memorial Plea
Maghar Singh was sent to the frontline in France aged just 15, after signing up to fight in the British Indian Army. In 2002, his son joined other Sikhs in Coventry to help set up a memorial on a roundabout on the A444. While praising the memorial, Maghar's grandson Jagdeesh Singh said the location underplayed the Sikh role.