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The Raj Quartet is a four-volume novel sequence, written by Paul Scott, about the concluding years of the British Raj in India. The series was written...

known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet. In the last years of his life, his novel Staying On won the Booker Prize (1977). The series of books was dramatised...

Scott's Raj Quartet novels. Granada Television produced the series for the ITV network. The serial opens in the midst of World War II in the fictional...

in the latter two books of the Raj Quartet, The Towers of Silence and A Division of the Spoils. They were the last British couple who lived in the small...

.. JN & JF: I notice that the quartet which begins with The Virgin in the Garden is sometimes called The Frederica Quartet. ASB: My paperback publisher...

in the 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala) at the Old Vic (1 November 2009) The Tall One as Samantha (BBC Radio 4, 1 to 5 September 2003) The Raj Quartet as...

known for her role as Marilla Cuthbert in the Netflix series Anne with an E (2017–2019) and as Queen Mary in the 2019 film Downton Abbey. Geraldine James...

Gandhi's call for the Quit India movement to the British colonial government. The Raj Quartet is set in this tumultuous background for the British soldiers...

Cinematic Universe (MCU), beginning with the release of Doctor Strange (2016) and reprised the role in Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018)...

The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Raj Quartet. The four-volume novel sequence of the Quartet is set during the final...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Satanic Verses, McTeague, Lord of the Flies, Bleak House, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Raj Quartet, Light in August and Blood...

Angel, The January Wedding, The Making of the English Landscape, The Great Pursuit, The Bruno Bettelheim Project, The Raj Quartet, Miss Esther's Guest, Are...

"pukka sahib" sarcastically in The Raj Quartet to describe comically overbearing behaviour. In her poem "All One Race", the Indigenous Australian writer...

The Day of the Scorpion is a 1968 novel by Paul Scott, the second in his Raj Quartet. It is set in India during World War II as the influence of the British...

for The Raj Quartet (1965-1975) dealing with the final years of the British Empire in India. John le Carré made use of overseas settings for The Spy Who...

vendors and wealthy elites, the beginning of the novel parallels Kim in many ways. Paul Scott's four-novel sequence The Raj Quartet (1966–1975) contains a...

Division of the Spoils is the 1975 novel by Paul Scott. It is the fourth and final book of his Raj Quartet. The novel is set in the British Raj. It follows...

Dorai Raj (born 3 December 1982) is an Indian former cricketer who captained the India women's national cricket team from 2004 to 2022. She is the highest...

which feature events of World War II in the narrative. List of World War II films List of World War II short films The deceased historical figures are played...

Counterpart to the Mahabharata's "Book of Virata." The title of this section alludes to Paul Scott's Raj Quartet. Hastinapur is annexed to the British Presidency...