2 edition of Bhowani Junction found in the catalog.
Bhowani Junction
John Masters
Published
1993
by Warner in London
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Written in
Edition Notes
Originally published, London: Michael Joseph, 1954.
| Statement | John Masters. |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | 414p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 414 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL17415495M |
| ISBN 10 | 0751507792 |
Colonel Rodney Savage arrives in Bhowani Junction with his troops, intent on keeping the peace. While most Indians support Ghandi's non-violent approach, communist agitators led by someone known only as Davay are prepared to use violence to meet their objectives. The beautiful Victoria Jones - an Anglo-Indian of mixed English and Indian. Bhowani Junction by John Masters, , Viking Press edition, in EnglishPages:
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Masters’ novel, Bhowani Junction () is set during the last few years of the British rule in the Indian Subcontinent and the tumultuous atmosphere of those times is incorporated perfectly.
Bhowani Junction was adapted from the novel by John Masters. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi Ava Gardner was never more alluring than as the half-caste heroine of Bhowani Junction%.
Directed by George Cukor. With Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer. Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid /10(K). Bhowani Junction wants to be an "important" film, being set as it is, in a crucial period of world history, the liberation of India from colonial rule.
Unfortunately, Bhowani 's ambitions are not realized, and it comes across as a rather turgid melodrama that just happens to take palce in (and exploit) an important historical : Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers.
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The Bhowani trilogy by John Masters pictures an India in different stages of turmoil. Probably the best is Night Runners of Bengal set around the time of the Indian Mutiny but Bhowani Junction, set in the India of the mid 's, just prior to Independence, runs it very close/5(39).
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Forster's 'A Passage to India' and the acclaimed works of such later writers as Paul Scott and Salman Rushdie/5(49). It is a harder thing to do in today's setting than in the period background of Nightrunners of Bengal and its successors.
But once again, for those to whom Masters is in a way today's Kipling, Bhowani Junction will carry immense appeal. Book of the Month for April means it is off to a good start.
Get this from a library. Bhowani Junction. [John Masters; Patrick Tull; Jill Tanner; Neil Hunt] -- Patrick Taylor finds that Victoria Jones, a young Anglo-Indian, has. The plot of Bhowani Junction is told from three separate points of view with the narrative voices of Victoria Jones (the product of a mixed marriage of English and Indian parents); her one-time lover, Patrick Taylor, also from a mixed family and the main character, Rodney /5(3).
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You can almost smell the mixture of dust, oil, and human sweat as the train pulls into Bhowani Junction. © John Masters (P) Recorded Books, LLC More from the same.John Masters evokes the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India in his classic novel Bhowani Junction.
Set in the late 's in the wake of partition it has become one of the great novels of India, alongside E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. Savage and his troops were sent out to Bhowani Junction in early to keep the railways running smoothly (to facilitate the British withdrawal).
As his train pulls into Bhowani, Savage finds the station a scene of unutterable confusion – it’s been flooded by Congress party workers, led by Surabhai (Abraham Sofaer), in a peaceful attempt.
