Raj Quartet by Scott, Paul

ISBN: 0380466988

Author: Scott, Paul

Condition: new

Four novels covering the period between the Quit India riots of 1942 and the massacres that accompanied independence and partition in 1947 provide insight into the closing years of British rule in India

• Over all a beautiful set of this 4-volume collection. ISBN 0-380-69933-8. The tetralogy, composed of The Jewel in the Crown (1966), The Day of the Scorpion (1968), The Towers of Silence (1971), and A Division of the Spoils (1975), is set in India during the years leading up to that countrys independence from the British raj (sovereignty).