Paul Scott: The Raj Quartet and Staying On

A historically informed and informing study guide to of Scott's four great novels of British India - The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils - and of the popular coda, Staying On.

Part 1. Life and Works: An Overview

1.1 Paul Mark Scott, 1920–78

1.2 Work to 1964

1.3 The Raj Quartet and Staying On , 1964–77

Part 2. Facts, Fictions, and Verisimilitude: Representing the British Raj

2.1 Geography

2.2 History

2.3 Biography

Part 3. ‘Coming to the end of themselves as they were’: Witnessing Imperial Decay

3.1 The Civil

3.2 The Military

Part 4. ‘There’s nothing I can do’: Embodying Personal Nullity

4.1 Edwina Crane

4.2 Daphne Manners

4.3 Barbie Batchelor

4.4 Sarah Layton

Part 5: Class and Silence

5.1 Neo-Puritanism and the ‘Split Century’, 1850–1950

5.2 Ronald Merrick as Antagonist

5.3 Ronald Merrick as Protagonist

Part 6. Dreams, Nightmares, & Realpolitik: Representing India (and Pakistan)

6.1 Mohammed Ali Kasim, Gandhi-ji, and the Congress

6.2 Sayed Kasim, Jinnah, and the Muslim League

6.3 Ahmed Kasim, Pandit Baba, and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

6.4 Hari Kumar as Good and Unknown Indian

6.5 Tusker and Lucy Smalley: Staying On

Appendix 1: Granada TV’s adaptations of Scott

Appendix 2: Critics’ Corner and Further Reading

Bibliography