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Orwell knew what he was writing about; Eric Arthur Blair (his real name) served with the Indian Imperial Police Force in Burma for a number of years. Prior to the book being published in 1934 there were concerns about law suits. After reading it the head of the Mandalay Police Training School threatened to horsewhip his former student should he ever encounter him again. His family was apparently unperturbed by the story. Perhaps his father having been an uncovenanted member of the Indian Civil Service in the Bengal Opium Department and his mother having grown up with her French family in Moulmein, South Burma, meant that they were unsurprised by what George Orwell’s first novel revealed.

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