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====Autobiography====
* ''Bugles And A Tiger: A Personal Adventure'' 1956. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278629 Archive.org], mirror version from Digital Library of India. Also available titled [http://archive.org/details/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/coromandel00mast ''CoromandellCoromandel!''] 1955. 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/nightrunnersofbe00mast ''Nightrunners Of Bengal''] 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, Archive.org]. The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
* ''The Lotus And The Wind'' first published c 1952. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149087 Archive.org], 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/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====
* ''Fandango Rock'' 1959 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.3050 Archive.org] mirror from Digital Library of India. Set in Spain.
