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Lieutenant Colonel John Masters, DSO (1914–1983) was an English officer in the Indian Army from 1934, with 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 autobiography ''Bugles and a Tiger; a Volume of Autobiography'' was made into published in 1956 and has since been republished under slightly different titles as ''Bugles and a successful filmTiger'', starring Ava Gardner''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 geographic location second volume of fictional Bhowani Junction was most likely Jhansi, but his autobiography ''Road Past Mandalay'' deals mostly with the film was shot Burma campaign in Lahorethe Second World War. Both volumes are available online, refer below.

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20141111152844/http://forpakistan.org/fpdata/bhowani-junction-a-brief-but-memorable-encounter-with-hollywood / Bhowani Junction – a brief but memorable encounter with Hollywood] by Hamid Hussain April 12, 2013 forpakistan.org, now an archived webpage.* Listen to a [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/collection/john-masters/ 1978 interview with John Masters (1914-1983), including transcripts] .s-asian.cam.ac.uk

===Online Booksbooks===*The following books may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.====Autobiography====**''Bhowani Junction'' 1954**''Bugles and a And A Tiger: A Personal Adventure'' 1956. 1965 edition[https://archive. Autobiography: Waziristan org/details/in the late 1930s**''Fandango Rock'' 1959. **''Pilgrim Son'' 1954ernet.dli.2015.278629 Archive.org], mirror version from Digital Library of India. *The following books are Also available to borrow from the titled [http://archive.org/details/lendinglibrary buglesandtigervo00mast ''Bugles And A Tiger: A Volume of Autobiography''] 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/roadpastmandalay0000mast ''The Road past Mandalay : a personal narrative''] 1961. [https://archive.org/details/roadpastmandalay00mast 1979 reprint edition] Internet Archive (Archive.org) Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. 2nd volume of Autobiography, [[Second World War]] period. 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. *''Pilgrim Son'' 1971 Full title: ''Pilgrim Son : a Personal Odyssey''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184920 Archive.org] mirror version from Digital Library of India. 3rd volume of Autobiography. Masters' life as a writer. ====Novels with an Indian background====Listed according to the period in which the novels are set.<ref> Wikipedia article</ref>*[http://archive.org/details/bhowanijunction00mast coromandel00mast ''Bhowani JunctionCoromandel!''] 19541955. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. A 17th-century English lad runs away to sea and ends up in India.* ''The Deceivers'' first published c 1952. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.351129 Archive.org] mirror from Digital Library of India. An English officer goes undercover to root out the ritual murders of Thuggee.*[httphttps://archive.org/details/buglesandtigervo00mast nightrunnersofbe00mast ''Nightrunners Of Bengal''Bugles and a Tiger] 1966 reprint edition, first published 1951. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.425656/page/n1/mode/2up 1955 edition, a Volume Archive.org]. The Sepoy Mutiny of Autobiography1857.* ''The Lotus And The Wind''first published c 1952. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149087 Archive.org] 1956, mirror from Digital Library of India. The Great Game of British and Russian agents on the Northwest Frontier.*[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. Believed to be based on the real-life Jodhpur Lancers (Indian States Forces)<ref>Comment by Peter Moore on an archived webpage [https://web.archive.org/web/20170328152740/http://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/lieutenant-frank-de-pass/ Soldiers Stories: Lieutenant Frank de Pass] nam.ac.uk</ref>.*''Bhowani Junction'' 1954. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.68403 Archive.org] mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available in the [http://archive.org/details/coromandel00mast bhowanijunction00mast Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library]. Britain's exodus and the Partition of India.*[https://archive.org/details/MastersIndianSagaBBCr4 BBC Radio] 18-part serialisation of John Masters' chronicles of the Savage family, spanning the years 1825-1946 based on the novels ''The Deceivers'', ''Night Runners of Bengal'', ''The Lotus and the Wind'' and ''Bhowani Junction'', first broadcast 1984-1985. Archive.org* ''To The Coral Strand'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149979 Archive.org], mirror from Digital Library of India. An ex-officer refuses to go gracefully after Indian independence. ====Other novels====* ''Coromandel!Fandango Rock''1959 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.3050 Archive.org] 1955mirror from Digital Library of India. Set in Spain. ==References==<references/>

[[Category:People|Masters, John]] [[Category:Authors|Masters, John]]