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Adaptations

• A play written by Santha Rama Rau based on the novel ran on the West End in 1960, and on Broadway from January 31, 1962 through April 28, 1962^[3]
• A BBC TV version of the novel, starring Sybil Thorndike, Virginia McKenna, Cyril Cusack and Saeed Jaffrey, first aired on 16 November 1965.^[4]
• The acclaimed Indian parallel Bengali film director Satyajit Ray intended to direct a theatrical adaptation of the novel, but the project was never realized.^[5]
• The 1984 film version directed by David Lean, and starring Judy Davis, Victor Bannerjee, James Fox, Peggy Ashcroft and Alec Guinness, won two Oscars and numerous other awards.
• Martin Sherman's adaptation for theatre company Shared Experience premiered in Richmond in 2002.^[6] It has toured the UK and played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theater in November 2004.^[7]