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====Autobiography====
====Autobiography====
*[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], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278629  Archive.org mirror version]. 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.
*[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], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278629  Archive.org mirror version]. 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/roadpastmandalay00mast ''The Road Past Mandalay''] 1979.  Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library.  Earlier title: ''The Road past Mandalay : a personal narrative''. First published 1961. 2nd volume of Autobiography.
*[https://archive.org/details/roadpastmandalay00mast ''The Road Past Mandalay''] 1979.  Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library.  Earlier title: ''The Road past Mandalay : a personal narrative''. First published 1961. 2nd volume of Autobiography. The short first part takes Masters and the 2/4th Ghurkas to Iraq and Syria. After a  staff course back in India, the balance of the book concerns his time in Burma, with a Chindit Column.  
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/184920 ''Pilgrim Son''] 1971. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Pilgrim Son : a Personal Odyssey''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184920 Archive.org mirror version]. 3rd volume of Autobiography. Masters' life as a writer.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/184920 ''Pilgrim Son''] 1971. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Pilgrim Son : a Personal Odyssey''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184920 Archive.org mirror version]. 3rd volume of Autobiography. Masters' life as a writer.
====Novels with an Indian background====
====Novels with an Indian background====
Listed according to the period in which the novels are set.<ref> Wikipedia article</ref>
Listed according to the period in which the novels are set.<ref> Wikipedia article</ref>

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Lieutenant Colonel John Masters, DSO (1914–1983) was an officer in the Indian Army from 1934, with the 2nd Battalion 4th Gurkha Rifles from 1935, and novelist.

His autobiography Bugles and a Tiger; a Volume of Autobiography was published in 1956 and has since been republished under slightly different titles as Bugles and a Tiger, Bugles and a Tiger : a Personal Adventure and Bugles and a Tiger: My Life in the Gurkhas. It covers the Waziristan Campaign 1936-39. The second volume of his autobiography Road Past Mandalay deals mostly with the Burma campaign in the Second World War. Both volumes are available online, refer below.

His 1954 novel Bhowani Junction, set in the period of Britain's exodus and the Partition of India, 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.

External links

Online books

Autobiography

Novels with an Indian background

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

Other novels

References

  1. Wikipedia article