Orwell in Burma, ‘Flatulent’ Travel Writing, and Banning the Word ‘Plantation’
George Orwell (né Eric Blair) left England for Burma at age 19, a freshly minted graduate of Eton College, the poshest school in the British Empire. The year was 1922, and Orwell/Blair would remain in Burma until 1927, a member of the imperial police force. What little we know of his time there can be