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Set in 1942, English author Paul Scott’s historical novel The Jewel in the Crown (1966) follows Daphne Manners, a young Englishwoman who moves to India during the waning years of British rule, and her controversial relationship with Hari Kumar, an Indian journalist educated in England, amid the backdrop of severe racial and class divisions. The first volume of Scott's four-book series, The Raj Quartet, the novel was later adapted into a 1984 miniseries on ITV. This book depicts violent assault.