num_pages: 472
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Jewel in the Crown
titlecomplete: The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1)
characters: Ronald Merrick, Hari Kumar, Lili Chatterjee, Daphne Manners, Edwina Crane
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, India, Asia, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 5817
places: India
series: The Raj Quartet
publisher: University of Chicago Press