Zebo...actually you are nearly right but not quite !
The original 4 books by Paul Scott were even better than the TV adaption.
I first read them in my late teens, not long after they came out, and I can recommend them to everybody. He wrote a sequel, "Staying On", which won the Booker Prize in 1977, although it is in the form of a coda, rather than a sequel. It was also made into a first class TV adaption, starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, who were reunited for the first time since Brief Encounter !....worth watching for that fact alone !
But the TV adaption of the Raj Quartet was as near perfect as anybody could have hoped for, and its a box set that I come back to every few years or so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raj_Quartet