The Raj Quartet (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Scott
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Historical chronicle
- Time of Work: From 1942 to 1947, the last years of the British Raj in India
- Setting: The cities and hill stations of India
- Principal Characters: Edwina Crane, Daphne Manners, Hari Kumar, Ronald Merrick, Barbie Batchelor, Mabel Layton, Sarah Layton, Susan Layton, Mildred Layton, Ahmed Kasim, Guy Perron
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: History, Politics, Race, Revolutions, 1940’s, Class consciousness, War, Nationalism, India or East Indian people, Government, Modernization
- Locales: India
The Novels
Four novels form Paul Scott’s series known as The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, and A Division of the Spoils. The quartet takes a panoramic view of India during the last days of the Raj, the British ruling class in India. In 1945, the British government voted to grant India independence from Great Britain; the days of colonialism ended and an uneasy transfer of power began. Scott’s novels cover a five-year period from 1942 to 1947, and he uses that particularly turbulent and disturbing era to...
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