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Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, Volume 1) » (REPRINT)

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Authors: Paul Scott
ISBN-13: 9780226743400, ISBN-10: 0226743403
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: May 1998
Edition: REPRINT

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Author Biography: Paul Scott

Paul Scott (1920-78), born in London, held a commission in the Indian army during World War II. His many novels include Johnnie Sabib, The Chinese Love Pavilion, and Staying On.

Book Synopsis

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. On the night after the Indian Congress Party votes to support Ghandi, riots break out and an ambitious police sargeant arrests a young Indian for the alleged rape of the woman they both love.

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<:st> Reprint of the 1966 edition which is cited in as part of the . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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