![]() ![]() ![]() Ronald Merrick, a young lower-middle-class Englishman, is the intelligent, hardworking local Indian Police superintendent. One night, after Hari and Daphne make love in the public Bibighar Gardens, a group of Indian men attacks them. Hari becomes romantically involved with Daphne Manners, a young British woman who shows an egalitarian attitude to Indians. During this time, violent anti-British demonstrations take place in the city. Numerous Anglo-Indians discriminate against him, and he is held in some suspicion by Indian independence activists. Working as a journalist, Kumar now has a lower social status in India, and lives between two worlds, British and Indian. The bankruptcy of his father, a formerly successful businessman, forces him to return to India to live with his aunt. Hari Kumar is a young Indian man who was educated at Chillingborough, a British public school he identifies as English rather than Indian. ![]() 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. Granada Television produced the series for the ITV network. The Jewel in the Crown is a 1984 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. 13.5 hours (53 minutes per episode first episode double-length) ![]()
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