PAUL SCOTT'S RAJ QUARTET | Named Places & Specific Locations (A Work-In-Progress)

Locations referred to for the first time in Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet.  Parenthetical references are first to quartet's volume in Roman numberal (I, II, III, or IV), then page in arabic numeral, and in some instances line number in arabic numeral(s).  For example, Mayapore (I-1=27) is first mentioned on line 27 of page 1 in volume I.  References are to the Avon Books boxed softcover set of four books printed at different times throughout 1979.  Some commentary is added for some places and locations.

Occasional reference to "9705NG map" is to National Geographic's May 1997 map titled "South Asia with Afghanistan and Myanmar".

Inside of India (at the time of the story, which included current-day Pakistan).

Bibighar Gardens || (I-1=3) || a neighborhood of Mayapore, north of the river (on the Civil Lines side of the river) + railroad tracks, just south of the waste land, southeast of the MacGregor House; site of rape of Daphne Manners.

Mayapore || (I-1=27) || a fictional town; one of the central locations of the story; final home of Edwina Crane; home of Hari Kumar (aka Harry Coomer); location of Daphne Manner's rape.  Site of British District Headquarters.  Probably in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Dibrapur || ( I-4=22 ) || a fictional hamlet 75 miles from Mayapore, most likely to the west of Mayapore.  The site of one of Edwina Crane's mission schools.  Probably in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Bombay || ( I-6=35 ) || one of India's greatest port cities + population centers located on its western coast at the base of the "horn"; now officially named Mumbai, it is still commonly referred to as Bombay.  During the raj, it was the principal embarkation point for ingress + egress to + from India.

Punjab || ( I-6=39 ) || at the time of the story, a state and a region, depending on the centext of the use of the word.   Present day India + Pakistan now both have states named Punjab.  Regionally it the the area of the upper reaches of the Indus Plain.  Its importance derives from its straddling of the Indus river.

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Lahore ( I-12 ); Muzzafirabad ( I-17 ); NWFP ( I-17=28) (NWFP = North West Frontier Province); Ranpur ( I-17 ); Calcutta ( I-26 ); Madras ( I-29 ); Banyaganj ( I-30 ); Rawalpindi ( I-34 ); Kashmir ( I-34 ); Kotali ( I-38 ); Aligarh ( I-38 ); Goa ( I-39 ); Bihar ( I-41 ); Garhwar  ( I-50 ) ; Tanpur ( I-53 ); Candgarh ( I-60 ); Amritsar ( I-62 ); Mahabalipuram ( I-71 ); Chandigarh ( I-71 ); Udaipur ( I-71 ); Cliveden ( I-83-19 ); Simla ( I-88 ); Pindi ( I-89=24 ); Srinagar ( I-98 ); Cawnpore ( I-137-23 ) = Kanpur; Delhi ( I-141 ); Tirupati ( I-145 ); Mandir ( I-145 ); Agra ( I-160 ); Chillingborough ( I-201 ); Bengal ( I-212 ); Lucknow ( I-212 ); Delali ( I-212 ); Bilaiti ( I-232 ); Meerut ( I-269 ); Ambala ( I-269 ); Mussoorie ( I-276 ) (Mussoorie is not depicted on the 9705NG map; it is located in northwesternmost Uttar Pradesh on a line about 25% of the way from Dehra Dun to Uttarkashi, which location I have marked with a small salmon-colored dot on the "e" of Dehra Dun); Darjeeling ( I-276 ) (also spelled Darjiling; it is located in the northwesternmost part of West Bengal, just south of Sikkim, which is east of Nepal); Paschendaele ( I-281 ); Marpuri ( I-284 ); Assam ( I-306 ); Burma ( I-306 ); Tanipuram ( I-311 ); Dum Dum ( I-323 ); Chaklala ( I-323 ); Brahmaputra ( I-324 ); Benares ( I-333 ); Pakistan ( I-463 ); Gopalakand ( I-463 ).

Outside of India

Burma (I-1=35) ||  now known as Myanmar; located east of the greater part of India across the Indian Ocean; invaded in WWII by the Japanese, who had advanced to the doorstep of India.  Scott served in the military in Burma in WWII.

Index & Notes | Alphabetical | Selective

Darjeeling | ( I-276 ) | also spelled Darjiling | located in the northwesternmost part of West Bengal, just south of Sikkim, which is east of Nepal | perhaps most famous for its distinctive tea.

Mussoorie | ( I-276 ) | Mussoorie is not depicted on the 9705NG map; it is located in northernmost Uttar Pradesh on a line about 25% of the way from Dehra Dun to Uttarkashi, which location is marked with a small salmon-colored dot on the "e" of Dehra Dun.

Paschendaele | ( I-281 ) | located in Belgium; location of one of the great battlefields of World War I; generally understood to be a charnel house of trench warfare.