The serial opens in the midst of World War II in the fictional Indian city of Mayapore, against the backdrop of the last … See more

• Peggy Ashcroft as Barbara Batchelor
• Janet Henfrey as Edwina Crane
• Derrick Branche as Ahmed Kasim
• Charles Dance as Sgt Guy Perron… See more

The Jewel in the Crown is a soundtrack album by Anthony Randall and Orchestra performing the compositions of George Fenton that appeared in the miniseries, released in 1985. It was originally released on … See more

Sir Denis Forman, then chairman of Granada Productions, wrote in 1983 that the impetus for adapting the Raj Quartet was the success of Scott's novel Staying On. The decision was made to attempt to adapt the q… See more

According to the Museum of Broadcast Communications there was "a cycle of film and television productions which emerged during the first half of the 1980s, which seemed to indicate Britain's growing preoccupati… See more

In contemporary reviews, John J. O'Connor of The New York Times wrote, "the careful accumulation of marvelous detail is never less than fascinating. And once again in a British production, the performances are rarely less t… See more