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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. 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.
