The Jewel in the Crown (1966)     I was forty or fifty pages into this book when it penetrated my little brain that it wasn’t going to be a straightforward novel about the last days of Imperialist Britain in India.  Consequently, I laid it aside for a few days and then started it again from a different perspective. I’m glad that I did. Perspective is what Paul Scott’s 1966 novel The Jewel in the Crown is all about.  We start off by seeing India in 1942 from the point of view of Miss Crane, a teacher and one-time admirer of Ghandi.  Although she has lived in the country for many years, she has...