In the clip above, I discuss “Bhowani Junction,” from 1956—a drama, set in India in 1947, during the country’s struggle for independence, starring Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones, a half-Indian, ...

To make Bhowani Junction, based on the John Masters novel, Metro went to Pakistan to shoot a film about India. The journey paid rich dividends, for the sense of realism in the film is one of the best ...

Amongst the numerous books written about the British colonial era in the Indian Subcontinent, we have the well-known classics like A Passage to India by E.M Forster and books by Rudyard Kipling.

BEFORE “Bhowani Junction” has progressed very far, Ava Gardner, playing an Anglo-Indian girl who lives in British India and is emotionally unstrung because she doesn’t know whether to favor her Anglo ...

BHOWANI JUNCTION (394 pp.)—John Masters—Viking ($3.75). In days gone by, when the sun never set on the British Empire, old India hands toted the white man’s burden, and Rudyard Kipling wrote about it ...

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The year is 1947, the British are on the verge of finally leaving India. Amongst the few who are sorry to see the British leave are the Anglo-Indians, half British and half Indian, for they are going ...

Ladies and Gentlemen, you are in Lahore and it is April 1955. The city is blown away by an extraordinary event and for a few vibrant weeks, residents of this historical city will converge on the ...