George Orwell And His Link To India

India as a significant place for George Orwell:

George Orwell (Eric Blair)was born in 1903, in a small british colony in india known as Motihari . During that time, British Empire had control overIndia and were linked by its monopoly over a very famous drug known as opium. His father was an agent at the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service as well as his grandfather; they both servedthe Indian Army. His family had a relatively privileged and fairly pleasant life. As a matter of fact, the Blair family was not very wealthy, They owned no property, had no extensive investments;they were like many middle-class English families of the time, totally dependent on the British Empire for their prosperity.
In 1907, Orwell goes back to England to live at Henley-on-Thames with hisfamily, except for his father that kept his job as an agent in India. 15 years pass by, and in 1922 Orwell gives up on school and takes another path. Instead, he was drawn to a life of travel andaction. He decides to join the Indian Imperial Force, following his grandfather’s and father’s steps . He trained in Burma, and served there in the police force for five years until he finally abandonedhis job. There had been at least two reasons for this: firstly, his life as a policeman was a distraction from the life he really wanted, which was to be a writer; and secondly, he had come to feelthat, as a policeman in Burma, he was supporting a political system in which he could no longer believe. Even as early as this, his ideas about writing and his political ideas were closely linked. It wasnot simply that he wished to break away from British Imperialism in India: he wished to "escape from ... every form of man's dominion over man"and the social structure from which he came, depended,as he saw it, on just that "dominion over others" - not just over the Burmese, but over the English working class. He considered himself a socialist; he wanted to see Britain transformed but he did...