Victoria is an officer in Army, and- home on end leave, hopes to be accepted without apologies on her own, without reference to her Anglo-Indian status. Cutting deeper below the surface of India's own tragedy of internal insecurity in her antagonisms rooted in caste and blood strains, Masters has created one memorable character, the lovely half-caste, Victoria Jones, daughter of a railroad engineer, two thirds English, and a native mother. In this his fourth novel against a setting of India, John Masters has chosen an almost contemporary period, shortly prior to the recognition of the independence of India, for another novel of violence.
a remarkable and accurate picture of the Empire and its aftermath, as well as magnificent storytelling. * Birmingham Post * One of the most unjustly neglected writers. * Observer * The realities of fading British influence in India recounted in Bhowani Junction. He organizes and controls the swift-moving, exciting narrative with the unobtrusive brilliance of a first-class military strategist.
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