From his portrait of Mohammed Ali Kasim, the Muslim politician, to Sarah Layton, the unconventional colonel’s daughter, Paul Scott created complex, riveting personae and indelible narratives. Despite their critics (including Salman Rushdie), The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, and The Division of the Spoils are some of the twentieth century’s most sensitive and intimate explorations of cultural encounters in a colonial context. Volume II: The Quartet and Beyond (1966–1978)Įnglish author Paul Scott is justifiably most renowned for The Raj Quartet, four works that examine the British Raj in India through the spectrum of English and Indian characters. Behind Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet: A Life in Letters, Volumes I & II by Paul Scott, collected and edited by Janis Haswell
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