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Burma / Myanmar:The former British Club in Katha, 2006. In Orwell's time it consisted of only the ground floor, and is thought to have served as the model for the British Club in 'Burmese Days' (1934).
In October 1922 he sailed on board S.S. Herefordshire to join the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. In April 1926 he moved to Moulmein, where his grandmother lived. At the end of that year, he went to Katha, where he contracted Dengue fever in 1927. He was entitled to leave in England that year, and in view of his illness, was allowed to go home in July. While on leave in England in 1927, he reappraised his life and resigned from the Indian Imperial Police with the intention of becoming a writer. His Burma police experience yielded the novel Burmese Days (1934) and the essays "A Hanging" (1931) and "Shooting an Elephant" (1936).
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