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Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years (1824 - 1886), during which three Anglo-Burmese Wars took place, and incorporated it into its Indian Empire. Burma was administered as a province of India until 1937 when it became a separate, self-governing colony; independence was attained as a result of the Aung San–Attlee agreement which guaranteed Burmese independence. Aung San was assassinated before Burma attained its independence on January 4, 1948.

With a strong interest in the lives of the working class, George Orwell (born in India to a middle-class family but brought up in Britain) held the post of Assistant Superintendent in the British Imperial Police from 1922 to 1927. Obliged to enforce the laws of an imperial power with which he fundamentally disagreed, Orwell's distaste for totalitarian regimes developed. After quitting the police, Orwell traveled back to England, where he detailed the lives of the poorest working groups in Down and Out in Paris and London and......

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