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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) <p>With a New Introduction by Hilary Spurling</p> <p><i>The Raj Quartet</i>, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and &nbsp;Proustian in detail &nbsp;but completely individual in&nbsp;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 from Britain.</p> <p>In <i>The Towers of Silence</i>, Barbie Batchelor, a British missionary and schoolteacher, befriends a British family and witnesses the trial of Hari Kumar, an Indian man accused of assaulting his beloved Daphne Manners, while observing the dangerously cruel Captain Ronald Merrick, Hari’s nemesis. In <i>A Division of the Spoils</i>, the chaos of the departure of the British and the fervor of Partition wreaks havoc upon the twilight of the Raj — and the end of a era.</p> <p>On occasions unsparing in its study of personal dramas and racial differences, the <i>Raj Quartet</i> is at all times profoundly humane, not least in the author’s capacity to identify with a huge range of characters. It is also illu

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Author

Paul Scott

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf; Everyman's Library

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307263964

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

4.37 / 5 (231 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14