History Series / TheJewelInTheCrown

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Mayapore is a fictional city, but the other cities where the action takes place such as Pankot and Bombay are real.

* YourCheatingHeart: Mildred cheats on her husband while he’s in a POW camp in Germany.

* {{Adorkable}}: Daphne is well aware of her general gawkiness, but apparently blind to how utterly adorable it makes her.

* BadassGay: Corporal Sophie Dixon of the RAMC. Merrick says he heard that Sophie ought to have received a medal for bravery, to which he responds, “Yes, but where would they pin it?”

* HelloNurse: Guy Perron.
-->'''Sophie''': Hold on to your knickers, girls! Look what fell down from the trees.

->''"The jewel is India."''
-->--Barbara Batchelor

* TheHolocaust: Dr. Anna Klaus is Jewish and fled to Mayapore to escape persecution in Germany.

* YourCheatingHeart: Mildred cheats on her husband while he’s in a POW camp in Germany.

* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Daphne has a moment a brief moment of this following [[spoiler:the rape]] when she starts going on about how Indian peasants all look alike and smell terrible. Dr. Klaus visibly grimaces at hearing this, but as she and the Deputy Commissioner leave the room, Daphne mentions that Raju brought her flowers that morning and she apologises.

Seminal drama from Creator/{{Granada}} based on the Raj Quartet novels by Paul Scott. Initially set in the fictional city of Mayapore, it starts off by telling the story of the relationship between Daphne Manners, a young Englishwoman who’s recently lost both her dad and her brother to the Desert Campaign, and Hari, an Indian raised in England since he was two and forced to return to India after his father’s death. Hari runs afoul of local police Superintendant, Ronald Merrick, who later gets shot down when he proposes to Daphne.

* ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion: Hari refers to himself as Black. Up until about the late seventies, it was pretty common in Britain for that to mean anyone with dark skin regardless of ethnicity. Nowadays it’s understood to only mean people of African and/or Afro-Caribbean descent. Folks with subcontinental heritage are generally referred to as “Asian”, specifying the exact country wherever possible. However, the old definition still lives on in places, such as in the name of the predominantly Asian charity, the Southall Black Sisters.

* ButNotTooGay: When Kansama sees Merrick with Aziz early one morning, he's supposed to be seeing something "incriminating" that causes him to realise that the two of them are sleeping together. However, they don’t kiss - they just sort of paw at each other awkwardly. Having said that though, on the whole the series is [[FairForItsDay much franker]] than Granada's previous [[Literature/BridesheadRevisited big gay outing]], which was loaded with HoYay but failed to have any of the characters address the matter directly.

!!"The jewel... is India."
- Several characters

* BadassGay: Corporal "Sophie" Dixon of the RAMC. Merrick says he heard that Sophie ought to have received a medal for bravery, to which he responds, “Yes, but where would they pin it?”

* ButNotTooGay: When Kansama sees Merrick with Aziz early one morning, he's supposed to be seeing something "incriminating" that causes him to realise that the two of them are sleeping together. However, they don’t kiss - they just sort of paw at each other awkwardly. The UK didn't get its [[Series/{{Eastenders}} first primetime gay male kiss]] until the year after ''Jewel in the Crown'', and even then it was an exceptionally tame peck on the forehead. Having said that though, on the whole the series is [[FairForItsDay much franker]] than Granada's previous [[Literature/BridesheadRevisited big gay outing]], which was loaded with HoYay but failed to have any of the characters address the matter directly.

* ChekovsGun: Daphne mentions to Hari that she got in trouble with the gardener at the [=MacGregor=] House for picking some of his marigolds. After the [[spoiler:rape]], she notices that Raju, one of the younger servants, brought her flowers with her breakfast. They were marigolds.

* {{Sadist}}: Merrick definitely has a sadistic streak running through him.
* SpiritedYoungLady: Daphne, and probably Sarah as well to a lesser extent.

* ButNotTooGay: When Kansama sees Merrick with Aziz early one morning, he's supposed to be seeing something "incriminating" that causes him to realise that the two of them are sleeping together. However, they don’t kiss - they just sort of paw at each other awkwardly. The UK didn't get its [[Series/{{Eastenders}} first primetime gay male kiss]] until the year after 'Jewel in the Crown'', and even then it was an exceptionally tame peck on the forehead. Having said that though, on the whole the series is [[FairForItsDay much franker]] than Granada's previous [[Literature/BridesheadRevisited big gay outing]], which was loaded with HoYay but failed to have any of the characters address the matter directly.

* UnreliableNarrator: Bronowsky's account of Merrick's state of mind before his death, possibly.

* MeaningfulName: Daphne in Greek mythology is relentlessly pursued by Apollo, whose feelings she does not return. She cries out to her father for help and he turns her into a tree. On the surface, it would seem

* KarmaHoudini: The men who actually raped Daphne are never caught.

* TragicKeepsake: We discover in the last episode that Hari kept the picture of Daphne that she gave him the first time they were in the Bibighar. (Presumably his auntie looked after it for him while he was in prison.)

-->’’’Sophie’’’: Hold on to your knickers, girls! Look what fell down from the trees.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Daphne, who dies in childbirth in the third episode.