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===Online Books===
 
===Online Books===
*The following books may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
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====Autobiography====
**''Bhowani Junction'' 1954
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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/525270 ''Bugles And A Tiger(1956)''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/278629  Another  DLI  file, possibly 1965]. Also available in the [http://archive.org/details/buglesandtigervo00mast Internet Archive (Archive.org) 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 [http://openlibrary.org/account/create sign up with the Open Library].  Waziristan in the late 1930s with the Indian Army.
**''Bugles and a Tiger''. 1965 edition. Autobiography: Waziristan in the late 1930s
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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/184920 ''Pilgrim Son''] 1954. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. 3rd volume of Autobiography. Masters' life as a writer.
**''Fandango Rock'' 1959.  
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====Novels with an Indian background====
**''Pilgrim Son'' 1954.
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Listed according to the period in which the novels are set.<ref> Wikipedia article</ref>
*The following books are available to borrow from the [http://archive.org/details/lendinglibrary 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 [http://openlibrary.org/account/create sign up with the Open Library]
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*[http://archive.org/details/coromandel00mast ''Coromandell''] 1955. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. A 17th-century English lad runs away to sea and ends up in India.
**[http://archive.org/details/bhowanijunction00mast ''Bhowani Junction''] 1954
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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/351129  ''The Deceivers''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India. An English officer goes undercover to root out the ritual murders of Thuggee.
**[http://archive.org/details/buglesandtigervo00mast ''Bugles and a Tiger, a Volume of Autobiography''] 1956
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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/425656 ''Nightrunners Of Bengal''] 1951. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
**[http://archive.org/details/coromandel00mast ''Coromandel!''] 1955
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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/149087 ''The Lotus And The Wind'']  Pdf download, Digital Library of India. The Great Game of British and Russian agents on the Northwest Frontier.
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*[https://archive.org/details/ravilancersnovel00mast ''The Ravi Lancers''] 1972. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library.  An Indian cavalry regiment  is sent to the France at the outbreak of the First World War.
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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/68403 ''Bhowani Junction''] 1954.  Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Also available in the [http://archive.org/details/bhowanijunction00mast  Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library]. Britain's exodus and the Partition of India.
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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/149979 ''To The Coral Strand'']  Pdf download, Digital Library of India. An ex-officer refuses to go gracefully after Indian independence.
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====Other novels====
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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/3050 ''Fandango Rock''] 1959  Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Set in Spain.
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==References==
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Revision as of 04:51, 4 September 2016

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

External links

Online Books

Autobiography

Novels with an Indian background

Listed according to the period in which the novels are set.[1]

  • Coromandell 1955. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. A 17th-century English lad runs away to sea and ends up in India.
  • The Deceivers Pdf download, Digital Library of India. An English officer goes undercover to root out the ritual murders of Thuggee.
  • Nightrunners Of Bengal 1951. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
  • The Lotus And The Wind Pdf download, Digital Library of India. The Great Game of British and Russian agents on the Northwest Frontier.
  • The Ravi Lancers 1972. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. An Indian cavalry regiment is sent to the France at the outbreak of the First World War.
  • Bhowani Junction 1954. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Also available in the Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. Britain's exodus and the Partition of India.
  • To The Coral Strand Pdf download, Digital Library of India. An ex-officer refuses to go gracefully after Indian independence.

Other novels

  • Fandango Rock 1959 Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Set in Spain.

References

  1. Wikipedia article