The complex and multilayered epic subtly illustrates the changing relationship between the British overlords and the Indian subjects as independence approaches and the sense of dislocation and loss experienced by the British as their way of life and hegemony in the country begin to crumble.Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years has no equal.

Later episodes focus on events in the lives of the military family of the Laytons, with whom Merrick, who has become an officer in the Indian army, is also involved. The effects of the injustice reverberate through the entire series. The sadistic and racist British police officer Ronald Merrick (Tim Piggott-Smith) railroads Kumar for the crime. After engaging in a public tryst, the couple is set upon by a group of Indians, who beat Kumar and rape Manners. In the first two episodes, a recently arrived young British woman, Daphne Manners (portrayed by Susan Wooldridge), becomes romantically involved with a British-raised Indian man, Hari Kumar (Art Malik), in grave violation of the prevailing social norms. The story covers the period from 1942, in the midst of World War II, to the beginning of Indian independence in 1947.

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