Tag: John Masters

  • Maria on Bhowani Junction Archive to Blockbuster 2016-08-11 Maria Kaladeen, Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London The happiness I feel in encountering old movies about dual-heritage characters and communities is inevitably marred by the regurgitation of tired and offensive stereotypes about these individuals. The 1956 film Bhowani Junction, based on John…

  • History and the (Un)making of Identifications in Literary Representations of Anglo-Indians and Goan Catholics University of British Columbia September 2000 465 pages Marian Josephine Gracias A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Department of English) This dissertation examines selected literature…

  • Midnight’s Orphans: Anglo-Indians in Post/Colonial Literature Peter Lang 2006 265 pages Weight: 0.370 kg, 0.816 lbs Paperback ISBN: 978-3-03910-848-0 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” Glenn D’Cruz, Senior Lecturer School of Communication and Creative Arts Deakin University, Australia Anglo-Indians are the human legacy of European colonialism. These descendants of European men and Indian women regularly…

  • Books: Eight-Anna Girl Time Magazine 1954-03-29 Bhowani Junction (394 pp.)—John Masters—Viking 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 in some 35 volumes of prose and poetry. Now that the burden has been lifted, many an…