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Jewel in the Crown
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(Granada TV, 1983) Adaptation for television, in 13 parts, of Paul *Scott's Raj Quartet. The story focuses on the British community in *India in the five years leading up to independence in 1947. Leading characters are Daphne Manners (played by Susan Wooldridge), whose rape in the Bibighar Gardens in Mayapore is the spark which sets off the drama; Hari Kumar (Art Malik), who is wrongly imprisoned for the crime; Ronald Merrick (Tim Pigott-Smith), an inhibited and severe police officer; and Barbie Batchelor (Peggy Ashcroft), a retired missionary teacher who owns the old chromolithograph, entitled The Jewel in Her Crown, which once hung in a missionary schoolroom. It shows Queen Victoria surrounded by people of all classes from her Indian empire, for India herself was the jewel. The series had an exceptional critical and popular success.
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