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The Jewel in the Crown (TV series) tightly focused biography of a "Gandhi." "The Jewel in the Crown" is not only engrossing television. It is important television, a model of what the medium can do." Jeff Jarvis of "People" magazine called it "first-rate; the settings are stunning. It does a masterly job of making you care about its characters and what happens to them. That is what a mini-series is supposed to do, and Jewel does a spectacular job of it. It is this year’s best fictional mini." "The Washington Post" called the series "Ravishing, reverberant and profoundly sad" and regarding the setting; "The inscrutability of India