Scott, Paul

Scott, Paul

▪ British writer
in full  Paul Mark Scott 
born March 25, 1920, Palmers Green, Eng.
died March 1, 1978, London

      British novelist known for his chronicling of the decline of the British occupation of India, most fully realized in his series of novels known as The Raj Quartet (filmed for television as The Jewel in the Crown in 1984).

      Scott left school at 16 to train as an accountant. He joined the British army in 1940 and was sent to India. From 1943 to 1946 he served with the Indian army, during which time he traveled throughout India, Burma (now Myanmar), and Malaya. Upon returning to London he worked in a small publishing firm for four years and then became a director of a London literary agency; he resigned in 1960 to write full-time. A trip to India in 1964, underwritten by his publishers, helped inspire The Raj QuartetThe Jewel in the Crown (1966), The Day of the Scorpion (1968), The Towers of Silence (1971), and A Division of the Spoils (1975)—as well as Staying On (1977), which won the Booker Prize. While exploring the manifold consequences of the rape of an Englishwoman, the books illustrate in profuse detail the final years of the British occupation of India from the points of view of English, Hindu, and Muslim characters.

      All of Scott's works employ Indian themes or characters, even those set outside India. His early novels, such as Johnnie Sahib (1952), The Mark of the Warrior (1958), and The Chinese Love Pavilion (1960; U.S. title, The Love Pavilion), address moral conflicts of British army officers in the East.

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