![]() ![]() ![]() Scott's novel is as much a story of romantic love as it is of crime. The crime, so the story runs, has never been solved satisfactorily for a number of reasons, among them the fact that at the time the English administration was in the midst of putting down outbreaks that followed Gandhi's arrest, and the official inquiry was distracted. Scott, somewhat misleadingly, announces his plot as a belated inquiry into the rape by several Indians of an English girl, Daphne Manners, which occurred in Mayapore (an Indian town and district of Mr. The topic has recurred often enough in fiction since then, but never, to my knowledge, has it been treated as brilliantly as it is in Paul Scott's new novel, The Jewel in the Crown. M Forster's readers could have imagined then that his book's theme - relations between Europeans and non-Europeans - would soon become an acute human and literary concern. ![]() "The quartet has made Scott's international reputation as the chronicler of the decline and fall of the Raj."-Malcolm Muggeridge, New York Times Book Review Excerpt, Scott, The Raj Quartet An excerpt from ![]()
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