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'''Maurice Collis''' was born in 1889, the son of an Irish solicitor. He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1911 and was posted to Burma, rising to the position of District Magistrate of Rangoon in 1929, where the independence of his judgments displeased his superiors who moved him to the position of Excise Commissioner in 1931. He returned to England in 1934. He wrote over twenty books, including volumes of autobiography, travel writing, novels, histories and three plays. He died in 1973.
==External Links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Collis Maurice Collis] Wikipedia. Retrieved 30 August 2014
*[http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/lifestyle/9171-blood-and-spirit-reading-beyond-orwell-for-a-glimpse-of-british-burma.html "Blood and Spirit: Reading beyond Orwell for a glimpse of British Burma"] by Amaury Lorin 30 December 2013 ''Myanmar Times''. Retrieved 30 August 2014
*[http://theorwellprize.co.uk/george-orwell/by-orwell/essays-and-other-works/anonymous-review-of-trials-in-burma-by-maurice-collis/ Review by George Orwell of ''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis]. Published anonymously by ''The Listener'', 9 March 1938. Attribution to Orwell has been made from the journal’s record. theorwellprize.co.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2014
*[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw209710/Maurice-Collis Photograph: Maurice Collis by Ida Kar], vintage bromide print, 1960-1961 National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 30 August 2014
*[http://www.panoramio.com/photo/74885981 Photograph: In Kyaukphru, A House Where Maurice Collis Lived] panoramio.com. Retrieved 30 August 2014
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/TheLandOfTheGreatImage ''The Land Of The Great Image; Being Experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan''] by Maurice Collis 1946 (A History). Sebastien Manrique was a Portuguese Augustinian missionary who spent much of the period 1629-37 in Arakan, and also visited the Philippines, China and India. His account of his travels was originally written in Spanish and published in 1649 and 1653.
*[https://archive.org/details/SheWasAQueen ''She Was A Queen''] by Maurice Collis 1937 (Fiction) Biography of a Burmese Queen
*The following books by Maurice Collis. may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, as may the two books above.
**Autobiographies
***''Trials in Burma'' 1938. Probably the author’s most famous book on Burma, one of several volumes of autobiography, it covers the years 1928-1931, particularly his role as District Magistrate of Rangoon, and the riots of 1930.
**Histories
***''Foreign Mud - Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s and the Anglo-Chinese War That Followed'' 1946
***''The Great Within'' 1941. The interactions of China and Europe from the seventeenth century
**Other
***''British Merchant Adventurers'' 1942
***''The Burmese Scene'' c 1944. A review of the history, government and economic life of Burma.
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==External Links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Collis Maurice Collis] Wikipedia. Retrieved 30 August 2014
*[http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/lifestyle/9171-blood-and-spirit-reading-beyond-orwell-for-a-glimpse-of-british-burma.html "Blood and Spirit: Reading beyond Orwell for a glimpse of British Burma"] by Amaury Lorin 30 December 2013 ''Myanmar Times''. Retrieved 30 August 2014
*[http://theorwellprize.co.uk/george-orwell/by-orwell/essays-and-other-works/anonymous-review-of-trials-in-burma-by-maurice-collis/ Review by George Orwell of ''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis]. Published anonymously by ''The Listener'', 9 March 1938. Attribution to Orwell has been made from the journal’s record. theorwellprize.co.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2014
*[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw209710/Maurice-Collis Photograph: Maurice Collis by Ida Kar], vintage bromide print, 1960-1961 National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 30 August 2014
*[http://www.panoramio.com/photo/74885981 Photograph: In Kyaukphru, A House Where Maurice Collis Lived] panoramio.com. Retrieved 30 August 2014
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/TheLandOfTheGreatImage ''The Land Of The Great Image; Being Experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan''] by Maurice Collis 1946 (A History). Sebastien Manrique was a Portuguese Augustinian missionary who spent much of the period 1629-37 in Arakan, and also visited the Philippines, China and India. His account of his travels was originally written in Spanish and published in 1649 and 1653.
*[https://archive.org/details/SheWasAQueen ''She Was A Queen''] by Maurice Collis 1937 (Fiction) Biography of a Burmese Queen
*The following books by Maurice Collis. may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, as may the two books above.
**Autobiographies
***''Trials in Burma'' 1938. Probably the author’s most famous book on Burma, one of several volumes of autobiography, it covers the years 1928-1931, particularly his role as District Magistrate of Rangoon, and the riots of 1930.
**Histories
***''Foreign Mud - Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s and the Anglo-Chinese War That Followed'' 1946
***''The Great Within'' 1941. The interactions of China and Europe from the seventeenth century
**Other
***''British Merchant Adventurers'' 1942
***''The Burmese Scene'' c 1944. A review of the history, government and economic life of Burma.
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