John Masters

Lieutenant Colonel John Masters, DSO (1914–1983) was an English officer in the 2nd Battalion 4th Gurkha Rifles Indian Army from 1935, and novelist. His works are noted for their treatment of the British Empire in India.

His 1954 novel Bhowani Junction was made into a successful film, starring Ava Gardner. The geographic location of fictional Bhowani Junction was most likely Jhansi, but the film was shot in Lahore.

Also see

• North West Frontier Campaigns-Individual accounts

External links

• John Masters Wikipedia
• Bhowani Junction Wikipedia
• Ava Gardner in Lahore for 'Bhowani Junction' 22 June 2010 All Things Pakistan, now an archived website.
• Bhowani Junction – a brief but memorable encounter with Hollywood by Hamid Hussain April 12, 2013 forpakistan.org
• Listen to a 1978 interview with John Masters (1914-1983), including transcripts .s-asian.cam.ac.uk

Online Books

• The following books may be read online on the Digital Library of India website.
  • Bhowani Junction 1954
  • Bugles and a Tiger. 1965 edition. Autobiography: Waziristan in the late 1930s
  • Fandango Rock 1959.
  • Pilgrim Son 1954.
• The following books are available to borrow from the Internet Archive Lending Library. Only one person at a time is able to borrow, so you may need to wait for the book to be returned, First you must sign up with the Open Library
  • Bhowani Junction 1954
  • Bugles and a Tiger, a Volume of Autobiography 1956
  • Coromandel! 1955