Fascinating and fast-paced, this is a unique look behind the history that inspired the show and the years that would prove to be the making of the Queen.

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Each has their own individual flaws, struggles, and strengths, and we come to understand their motives and actions quite intimately. Mediengesellschaft der bayerischen Tageszeitungen für Kabelkommunikation, Medienpool and Radio Bavaria Rundfunkprogrammgesellschaft.Scott uses this plot along with the voices of several different narrators to paint a wider picture of both the history of India as well as its future. Any Indian who cannot see that the color of his skin excludes him from a higher society must be taught the finer lessons of societal behavior. Pacing, sentence structure, exposition, the way dialog is rendered, even the clarity of the storytelling, shifts with each new point of view. This novel is one of the better ones I've ever read in helping to understand India under British rule, The Raj.

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No set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule--"two nations locked in an imperial embrace"--as Paul Scott's historical tour de force, "The Raj Quartet. The image of a burning over turned car and the bludgeoned corpse of an Indian teacher and the British teacher Miss Crane sitting in the rain along side the road holding his unresponsive hand. Paul Scott’s extraordinary achievement is to encapsulate this huge canvas into the private lives of a few misfits.Or the story of Hari Kumar, an Indian boy brought up in England and suddenly transported back to the country of his birth, where he is an outsider to both cultures – unable to speak the Indian languages and lacking knowledge of their way of life, but as a ‘native’ he is not allowed to be a part of the British community either, despite his impeccable English manners and education. Back in the late 1960s and 70s, many young people in the UK and other Western countries were fascinated by the East, and especially by India. I was so awed by the technique that I found myself flipping back through the pages thinking 'how is he doing that to my brain? It's the only life they have known and its a way of life that's still untouched by changes that is happening in the rest of the world and England itself.

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We learn what Hari has done with his life so far, and why it is that Hari is now in India, unable to speak more than “pidgin Hindi”, and feeling like a fish out of water. None of these people plays a leading part in the story of the rape and its aftermath, but they are very much part of Scott's larger picture. Even beside EM Forster's A Passage to India, that touchstone critique of colonialism, it is a work of genius in its scale, in the stupendous breadth of its sympathies, and in its extraordinary narrative technique. A third group collects the business, conservative politics, and Christianity imprints Currency (formerly Doubleday/Crown Business), Crown Forum, Convergent, Image (formerly Doubleday Religion), Multnomah, and WaterBrook. We've been down this symbolic road already - naive imperialists defiled by intimacy with the conquered peoples - it's all too crude for me.So we have the English governess who leaves her own tribe to work with Indians, the widow of an Indian awarded one of the highest honors from the British crown, a white woman of uncertain nationality whose mission is to work with the poor, and an Indian lawyer enjoying the first fruits of a supposedly classless society. Like To Kill a Mockingbird and One Hundred Years of Solitude, the first paragraph hooks you with the whole story encapsulated in it. Even in these turbulent times the charm of the cantonment helped one to bear in mind the calm, wise and enduring things.

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At the beginning, Crown Books day-to-day operations were managed by Jose Gonzales (Vice President of Operations) and Jeanne Herrick (Vice President of Merchandising). I remember after the mini-series came out everybody was reading these tan colored paperbacks by a guy named Paul Scott. Work was easy to come by, provided one was happy to live the simple life, and this was a time when “aspirations” were more to do with experiencing variety, freedom of thought and options than acquisitiveness. The "trade" group includes the imprints Crown, Crown Archetype, Broadway Books, Hogarth, Three Rivers Press, and Tim Duggan Books. Under Random House's ownership, the Crown Publishing Group was operated as an independent division until 2018, when it was merged with the rest of Random House's adult programs.

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