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The Jewel in the Crown (TV series)
British television series
This article is about the television miniseries. For the novel on which it was based, see The Jewel in the Crown (novel).
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The Jewel in the Crown is a British television serial about the final days of the British Raj in India during and after World War II, based on British author Paul Scott's Raj Quartet novels.
Granada Television produced the series for the ITV network.
Plot
The serial opens in the midst of World War II in the fictional Indian city of Mayapore, against the backdrop of the last years of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement.
Hari Kumar is a young Indian man who was educated at Chillingborough, a British public school; he identifies as English rather than Indian. The bankruptcy of his father, a formerly successful businessman, forces him to return to India to live with his aunt.
Working as a journalist, Kumar