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Article History. The Jewel in the Crown, acclaimed British television miniseries (1984) that was adapted by Ken Taylor from The Raj Quartet, a series of novels by Paul Scott about the last days of British rule in India. The story covers the period from 1942, in the midst of World War II, to the beginning of Indian independence in 1947.
- Pat Bauer
Simply put, India was called Britain's "jewel in the crown" because it was the most valuable and profitable of Great Britain's empires. India was rich in both natural resources and labor potential ...
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For centuries, India was the world’s only source of diamonds—all the way until 1725, with the discovery of diamond mines in Brazil. Most of the gemstones were alluvial, meaning they could be sifted out of river sands, and rulers of the subcontinent embraced their role as the first diamond connoisseurs. “In many ancient Indian courts, jewelry rather...
At the turn of the 19th century, the British East India Company expanded its territorial control from coastal cities to the interior of the India subcontinent. As Dalrymple and Anand write of the British campaigns, “[they] would ultimately annex more territory than all of Napoleon’s conquests in Europe.” In addition to claiming more natural resourc...
Still shrouded in myth and mystery (including a rumor that the diamond is cursed) one thing is clear when it comes to the Koh-i-Noor: it sparks plenty of controversy. “If you ask anybody what should happen to Jewish art stolen by the Nazis, everyone would say of course they’ve got to be given back to their owners,” Dalrymple says. “And yet we’ve co...
Jul 8, 2020 · The Jewel in the Crown. July 8, 2020 by Disha Aadiya Ajit. To this day, when India is referred to as the “Jewel in the Crown” of the British Empire, a preponderance of people tend to assume that this historic title owes its origins to India’s vast and extensive wealth from when the British first set foot in India.
Often described as the 'Jewel in the Crown', British India played a key role (economic, strategic, military) in the expansion and consolidation of British Empire. In the 18th century India had been a territory held by the English East India Company; by the mid-19th century India became a crown ...
Mar 3, 2011 · How was the Raj transformed from the jewel in Britain's imperial crown to the independent nations of India and Pakistan? On this page. ... In 1858, British Crown rule was established in India ...
The Jewel in the Crown engages with and rewrites E. M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924), and so is necessarily set in a small, Hindu-majority rural town with an army garrison, but the wider province is implicit, and the later novels spread out to the cold-weather capital on the plains, the hot-weather capital in the hills, a neighbouring ...
