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Original Title:	The Towers of Silence
ISBN:	0226743438 (ISBN13: 9780226743431)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Raj Quartet #3
Characters:	Mohammed Ali Kasim, Count Bronowsky, Mabel Layton, Barbie Batchelor, Sarah Layton, Susan Layton, Mildred Layton, Ronald Merrick, Ahmed Kasim, Fenella Grace, Arthur Grace, Kevin Coley
Setting:	India,1943

The Towers of Silence (The Raj Quartet #3)

Paul Scott

Paperback | Pages: 399 pages

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Title	:	The Towers of Silence (The Raj Quartet #3)
Author	:	Paul Scott
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 399 pages
Published	:	May 22nd 1998 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1971)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. India. Literature

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India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between many human dramas; the love between Daphne Manner and Hari Kumar; the desperate grief an old teacher feels for an India she cannot rescue; and the cruelty of Captain Ronald Merrick.

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Barbie's Book       In September 1939, when the war had just begun, Miss Batchelor retired from her post as superintendent of the Protestant mission schools in the city of Ranpur.      Her elevation to superintendent had come towards the end of her career in the early part of 1938. At the time she knew it was a sop but tackled the job with her characteristic application to every trivial detail, which meant that her successor, a Miss Jolley, would have her work cut out untangling some of the

Love this series. As always so many different pieces of the story tie together in unexpected ways and an ending that draws me to the next book in the series. I am sure that I am missing so many things that Scott alludes to in the story. This is one series that I think I will enjoy a reread.

The four volumes of the Raj Quartet overlap and complement one another, while at the same time forwarding the main storyline of the slow twilight of the British ascendancy in India, always with the rape of a white girl by Indian men as the central lodestone everpresent in the background, the nightmare which is seldom mentioned but which none can drive from their minds. Events occur, are discussed, witnessed as newspaper reports, court documents, interviews, vague recollections from years later,

In 2013, on the recommendation of Eva Brann, I read the first book in the Raj Quartet, The Jewel in the Crown. In 2016, I finally finished the second in the series The Day of the Scorpion and today I completed book 3, The Towers of Silence, which took me about a year to read. I can hardly wait to start the final installment A Division of the Spoils. There are novels you read because they are thumping good reads and there are novels you read because they give you a sense of time and place. The

This book is the third one of the series The Raj Quartet.Some historical background which is important in order to follow the plot:Pankot, Barbie Batchlor's new home:Page 50: Gandhi's quit India resolution (Quit India Movement), August 14th, 1942.Page 100: Subhas Chandra Bose takes the leadership of the Indian National Army.Page 284: ...the defeat of the Japanese attempt to invade India at Imphal...The plot is set in Pankot which is a "second class" hill station in the province which serves as a

"You are now native roses. Of the country. The garden is a native garden. We are only visitors. That has been our mistake. That is why God has not followed us here."This third book in the remarkable Raj Quartet is bursting with metaphor. Barbie Batchelor, the principal character in this installment, likens the roles of the British and Indians in India to that of her companions cherished rose garden. At this particular juncture of the novel, Barbie is in the midst of a transformation of sorts, as

Impossibly beautiful, tragic, urgent, moving, ecstatic, its frustrating bits of war reportage and historical minutiae included. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING on the British in India comes even close - hell, who cares about the British in India, this is about the human condition as a whole, and very little comes close there too. I could not read the closing pages, I could not bear to let this work end.