A British author wrote the books the TV series The Jewel in the Crown were based on. Both he and the writer of Amde, or How to Get Rid of It, are playwrights that lived during the same time period.
Eugne Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu, ] ; 26 November 1909  28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. 
Paul Mark Scott (25 March 19201 March 1978) was an English novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy "The Raj Quartet." 
Amde, or How to Get Rid of It (French: "Amde ou comment s'en dbarrasser" ) is a play written by Eugne Ionesco in 1954 based on his earlier short story entitled "Oriflamme". 
The Jewel in the Crown is a 1984 British television serial about the final days of the British Raj in India during and after World War II, based upon the "Raj Quartet" novels (196575) by British author Paul Scott. 
