Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years has no
equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely
individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and
West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the
upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for
Indian independence. Book one, The Jewel in the Crown, describes
the doomed love between an English girl and an Indian boy, Daphne
Manners and Hari Kumar. This affair touches the lives of other
characters in three subsequent books, most of them unknown to Hari
and Daphne but involved in the larger social and political
conflicts which destroy the lovers. On occasions unsparing in its
study of personal dramas and racial differences, the Raj Quartet is
at all times profoundly humane, not least in the author's capacity
to identify with a huge range of characters. It is also illuminated
by delicate social comedy and wonderful evocations of the Indian
scene, all narrated in luminous prose.
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