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Jewel in the Crown is an expression used to refer to India which metaphorically was the "jewel in the crown" i.e. the most important part of the crown, in this case India was the most important part of the British Empire.

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Britian's " jewel" was considered to be India, it's most successful nation because it was such a good area for trade during the period of Imperialism.

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India was known as the jewel of British Empire because of the country's amazing value in trade that no other nation could match.

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The jewel int he crown was India because we got so many jewels form there.

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India

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india

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