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Paul Scott continued his career as a literary agent because he was the only support of his family. His novels show his experience of India and his services in the armed forces. He saw India very closely, henceforth; all his stories are related to India and Indian culture.In 1943, Paul Scott was posted as an officer cadet to India, where he was commissioned. Initially, he was shocked by the attitudes of Britons in India, by the dust and heat, by the poverty and disease and by the sheer number of peoples, but like others he also fell deeply in love with India. He visited India twice at the time of The Raj Quartet in 1968 and in 1971. "It was a survival of exiles.Their enemy was light of their own kind of their own people at home from whom they had been too long cut off so that, returning there briefly, a deep and holy silence wrapped them and caused them to observe what was real as miniature.In India they had been betrayed by an illusion of topographical vastness into sins of pride that were foreign to their insular, pygmy, nature."(The Raj Quartet,1).

Paul Scott, A novelist, Is dead at 57; A BritonKnown for ‘Raj Quartet’. "Paul Scott, a novelist who chronicled the end of British power in India. Though he set some of his novels in England and in Spain, his reputation will surely rest on the novels of British India that make up"The Raj Quartet””. By Thomas, Lask; March 3,1978 Imperialism: The relationship between Britain and India has a long history spanning more than 200 years. With the help of this relationship, India has given encouragement to many novels and novelists. And Paul Scott is the one who has an important place amongst them. The Anglo-Indian writers, in general, haveportrayed the theme of Indo-British relationship in their novels. Although, they did not record in their writings, the kind of relationship that existed during closing years of the British Empire, but Paul Scott is differentin that capacity as he has appropriately provided the details of the end of the British Empire as well as the early years of independence. In The Raj Quartet,which is a post imperial trilogy, Scott's assessment of India and the Indians is free from the errors inherent in the British mind while the colonial game was going on. In The Raj Quartet we get good photographs of India and an objective treatment of Indo-British relationship, as Scott's vision is not blurred by Euro-Centricism, and as such he is completely at home with his Indian subjects. Paul Scott came to India in 1943 and he lived in the country until 1946, the years preceding independence and partition. He was an officer in the royal army; he could closely watch the changing political and social landscape. His placement and the period of his stay authorize him to have better perspective of India during the 1940`s and provided him enough sustenance to the episodes of his novels. Tropical climate of India: Scott is different from many other Anglo-Indian novelists in his realistic and impartial attitudes towards India, its people, and its culture.He never believes in caste system. He is free from the prejudices of the Whites.He is objective and analytical in his approach towards India and the Indians. He has a very good knowledge of the climate of India and the geography is remarkable. The common complaint of the Europeans is that that India is a land of oppressive heat and dust but they have no objection about the tropical climate of India. Some of them even take it positively and enjoy it. Daphne Manners has a lot of love and admiration for India. Her love for India is so much that she feelsat home in India itself. While the British generally complain about India's hot climate, Daphne says in The Jewel in the Crown“it is better to undergo the exhaustion of the heat, the heat of April and May that brings out the scarlet flowers of golmohurs, The flames of the forest”(The Jewel in the Crown,393). She takes the Indian climate very positively. Paul Scott also paints many places of India. Like in the Johnnie Sahib the arch imperialist,Brigadier Reid,considers Mayapur to be a very beautiful place. Although it is warm, he thinks that he can get away down to Mussouri or up to Darjeeling. Even in The Day of the Scorpion for Mayble Layton, India is very comfortable. She is so used to the climate here that she feels cold in England. Scott implies that India`s climate only gets hotter for those who have lack of love for it.For example, it is Hari Kumar,the “Brown Englishman”,who finds that the sun warms his eyes in the morning when he looks out the window.He also comments about India`s rain. Scott says about rain that while it rains here in India, a particular smell and a dry nostril gets a mixture of dust from the ground. The action of the Raj Quartet mostly takes place in the central part of united provinces of India. One can get occasional glimpses of Calcutta,Bombay and Kashmir when their characters make journeys to these cities. Calcutta has poorly lit roads and urban areas. Bombay is portrayed as a busy city with buses, over laden trucks,horse-drawn porters and joy walking pedestrians. He vividly described Kashmir with its flowers and horse-boats in Dal Lake. The beautiful snow-capped cliffs of The Himalayas are described to exist rather than be seen. Liberated Women from the traditional Shackles:Paul Scott was strongly influenced by India so in all his stories we find Indian traditions that happened at that time,Like if one`s husband were to die she has to be sati. He talks about this tradition in one of his novel. Shalini in ‘The jewel in the crown’ refuses to commit Sati; she opposes the society. Because it is twentieth century’s India and the situation is different. Even going abroad has become common and no more it is considered a sin. As I talk about Shalini, like herLili, a widow leads a normal life socialising with the Indians as well as the Europeans. The awareness for education has increased day by day; even villagers send their children to schools; more and more schools and colleges are found to meet the needs of the youth. To Scott, the Hindu temple is a place full of life, spirituality and activity. On seeing people crouching around under the trees in the courtyard of the temple, Daphne in ‘The Jewel in the Crown’ remembers how on Sunday mornings, congregations gather and chat after the service outside the church. Indian Tradition and Culture: Scott wants to describe how the western way of life made its impact on the natives. Kumar, father of Duleep and grandfather of Hari Kumar is a typical traditional Indian. Though Kumaris rich, he gives up all his wealth and material comforts in search of spiritual knowledge. He puts onhimself a loin cloth, grabs a scarf and goes for begging with a bowl. The son Duleep, who is an English Indian, is puzzled as to why his father should opt for sanyaas except material life. Scott has also portrayed some Muslim characters in his novels. He talks about multi-religion and culture.The second novel of The Raj Quartet,‘The Day of the Scorpion’ deals with Muslims in India. It starts with the arrest of M A kasim and most of the story takes place in Mirat.

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