The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War

In one of the saddest scenes in Paul Scott's novel The Jewel in the Crown, is set at the beginning of Gandhi's "Quit India" movement, a crowd in Mayapore gets out of hand and attacks the car of the missionary, Miss Crane. They kill not her but her Indian companion, the teacher Mr Chaudhuri. She is found in the mud, the rain pouring down, cradling his head in her lap and repeating endlessly to herself "a promise not fulfilled."