The Jewel In The Crown Part 1 Of 2 Author:Paul Scott Part One Of Two Parts August, 1942. The Japanese are marching on Burma. In India, Ghandi talks sedition. It is hot and nerves are raw. Then a gang of rioters rapes a young Englishwoman. Thus opens volume one of Paul Scott's acclaimed series The Raj Quartet. Scott pictures a number of memorable Britons and Indians caught at the end of an epoch,... more » and shows us the effect it will have on them all. "I read all four books, one after another...in an undiminished hungry daze. Though I knew Scott was dead I had an impulse, as I shut the last volume, to write the man a letter...he had poured prodigious amounts of imagination, skill and wisdom into his work, but somehow I wanted him to give me more!" (The New Yorker)« less