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The book is one of a series of historical novels written by John Masters, set in India and involving several generations of the fictional Savage family. It has particular connections to Nightrunners of Bengal , the first novel Masters wrote in the series (though not the earliest in terms of its historical setting), which dealt with the Indian ...
The Venus of Konpara (1960) is a novel by John Masters which draws on an extreme version of the "Aryan Invasion Theory" model of ancient Indian history, according to which invading Aryan barbarians ruthlessly crushed underfoot the indigenous Dravidian peoples of the country, forcing them into the position of an oppressed underclass.
Lieutenant Colonel John Masters, DSO, OBE (26 October 1914 – 7 May 1983) was a British novelist and regular officer of the Indian Army. In World War II, he served with the Chindits behind enemy lines in Burma, and became the GSO1 (chief staff officer) of the 19th Indian Infantry Division .
The Ravi Lancers (1972) is a novel by British soldier and writer John Masters. [1] It is part of his series of novels portraying the British Raj through the experiences of members of the Savage family. Many of the incidents portrayed are based on the reminiscences of family-members and veterans in his Gurkha regiment.
Nightrunners of Bengal is the title of the first novel by John Masters.It is a work of historical fiction set against the background of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. It was published in 1951 in the United Kingdom by Michael Joseph, London, and in the United States (also 1951) by the Viking Press, New York.
The novel was adapted for radio by the BBC in 1984. [4]Film rights were bought by John Davis of The Rank Organisation in the late 1950s. [5] It was adapted in 1988 as the Merchant Ivory Productions film starring Shashi Kapoor, Pierce Brosnan, Bijaya Jena, Saeed Jaffrey, Rajesh Vivek, and Dalip Tahil.
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A Man Called Horse by Dorothy M. Johnson was originally published as a short story in Collier's magazine, January 7, 1950, [1] and was reprinted in 1953 as a short story in her book Indian Country. It was later made into a Wagon Train episode in 1958 [2] and into a film in 1970 with Richard Harris in the lead role as John Morgan and Manu Tupou ...