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John Masters

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===Online books===
====Autobiography====
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/525270 ''Bugles And A Tiger(1956): A Personal Adventure''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [http://www.new.dli.ernet 1956.in/handle/2015/278629 Another DLI file, possibly 1965], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278629 Archive.org ], mirror version]from Digital Library of India. Also available in the 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/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]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 ''Coromandell''] 1955. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. A 17th-century English lad runs away to sea and ends up in India.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/351129 ''The Deceivers''] Pdf download, Digital Library of Indiafirst published c 1952. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.351129 Archive.org ] mirror version] from Digital Library of India. An English officer goes undercover to root out the ritual murders of Thuggee.*[httphttps://wwwarchive.new.dli.ernet.inorg/handledetails/2015/425656 nightrunnersofbe00mast ''Nightrunners Of Bengal''] 1966 reprint edition, first published 1951. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. [https://archive.org/details/nightrunnersofbe00mast Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library version] 1966. The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/149087 ''The Lotus And The Wind''] Pdf download, Digital Library of Indiafirst published c 1952. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149087 Archive.org ], mirror version] 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://wwwww1.newnam.dliac.ernet.inuk/stories/handlelieutenant-frank-de-pass/2015Soldiers Stories: Lieutenant Frank de Pass] nam.ac.uk</68403 ref>.* ''Bhowani Junction''] 1954. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.68403 Archive.org ] mirror version] 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.*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/149979 ''To The Coral Strand''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149979 Archive.org ], mirror version]from Digital Library of India. An ex-officer refuses to go gracefully after Indian independence.
====Other novels====
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/3050 ''Fandango Rock''] 1959 Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.3050 Archive.org ] mirror version] from Digital Library of India. Set in Spain. 
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