The Jewel in the Crown
Paul Scott
472 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0226743403
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Language: English
Publish: May 22, 1998
20th CenturyAsiaBritish LiteratureClassicsFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionIndiaLiteratureNovels
No set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule–“two nations locked in an imperial embrace”–as Paul Scott’s historical tour de force, “The Raj Quartet.” The Jewel in the Crown opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for independence.