An Indian Affair

By John Masters

India, 1948. Rodney Savage, who has known, lived and fought in India for years, is bewildered by a country he no longer recognises and, now rootless, he struggles to find his place in it.

As he grows closer to widowed missionary Margaret Wood, the India that they knew falls apart.

Savage is rejected from the village tribe that called him ‘Gora Raja’ – the White King. They tell him he is a danger to the people of India and when the village general dies in prison, he is accused of murder.

Wanted as a criminal, Savage must turn his back on the India he once knew, and find his way in this strange land, a country that no longer needed the British…