He is being held as a prisoner of war in Germany, after his unit was captured early in the war. Sarah's and Susan's father is the colonel of the Indian Army regiment in Pankot, a hill station near Mayapore. While Lady Manners takes the infant to the resort area of Srinagar, she meets Sarah Layton, a young British woman vacationing with her mother, Mildred, and sister, Susan. The mixed-race daughter, Parvati, is taken in by Daphne's great-aunt, Lady Manners, widow of a former provincial governor. She chooses to believe Hari is the father, rather than one of the rapists. Merrick is transferred from Mayapore to a smaller, less important town in the province.ĭaphne learns she is pregnant. Word that Hari was tortured outrages the Indian community. But Hari and other young, educated Indians are jailed without trial under the security regulations adopted to suppress the Indian independence movement. When Daphne refuses to cooperate with the investigation, the police do not prosecute Hari for rape. Merrick resents Hari's privileged education and disdains Daphne's preference for him. He arrests Hari for her rape, holding him in the local jail.

He once professed romantic interest in Daphne, who politely but firmly rebuffed him. 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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