"(1870-1875) assigned the first police officer to be stationed at Maliwan, a village 24 miles north of current Victoria Point. Perhaps the most famous policeman in Burma from this period is the author George Orwell, who in 1922 joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. On 16 March 1988 following the killing of two students during the pro-democracy demonstrations, students marching on Prome Road were confronted near Inya Lake by the ""Lon Htein"" security force riot police and many beaten to death or drowned. The national police are made up of several smaller entities, including The current Director General of"
"but much of it is simply reporting what I have seen"". Orwell spent five years from 1922 to 1927 as a police officer in the Indian Imperial Police force in Burma, (now Myanmar). Burma had become part of the British Empire during the 19th century as an adjunct of British India. The British colonized Burma in stages—it was not until 1885 when they captured the royal capital of Mandalay that Burma as a whole could be declared part of the British Empire. Migrant workers from India and China supplemented the native Burmese population. Although Burma was the wealthiest country in"
"Imperial Police, in Burma, from October 1920 to December 1927, eventually resigning while on leave in England, having attained the rank of Assistant District Superintendent at District Headquarters, first in Insein, and later at Moulmein. He wrote of how having been in contact with, in his own words, ""the dirty work of Empire at close quarters"" had affected his personal, political and social outlook. Some of the works referring to his experiences include ""A Hanging"" (1931), set in the notorious Insein Prison, and his novel ""Burmese Days"" (1934). Likewise, although he wrote that, ""I loved Burma and the Burman and"
"captive for two years before being released in 1973. His experience in combat served as inspiration for his numerous war novels, for which he became famous. Prajim Wongsuwan Prajim Wongsuwan (, 13 August 1938 – 20 January 1990), also known by the pen name Sayumphu Thotsaphon (), was a Thai novelist and sprinter. Prajim Wongsuwan was born in Nakhon Ratchasima. He graduated school from Ratchasima Wittayalai School and subsequently enlisted in the Army Non Commissioned Officer School. Under the army's employment, he competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He later left the"
"he resigned from the Indian Imperial Police to become a writer, with effect from 12 March 1928 after five-and-a-half years of service. He drew on his experiences in the Burma police for the novel ""Burmese Days"" (1934) and the essays ""A Hanging"" (1931) and ""Shooting an Elephant"" (1936). In England, he settled back in the family home at Southwold, renewing acquaintance with local friends and attending an Old Etonian dinner. He visited his old tutor Gow at Cambridge for advice on becoming a writer. In 1927 he moved to London. Ruth Pitter, a family acquaintance, helped him find lodgings, and"
"by Orwell in ""The Listener"", published 9 March 1938: A new edition of the book was published in 1945. It contains an introduction written by the author dated 14 May 1945, and commenting on events in Burma since the book was originally published. Trials in Burma Trials in Burma is a memoir by Maurice Collis, an English author of Irish origin who served in Burma in the Indian Civil Service under the British Empire written in 1937 describing events in 1929-30. After postings at Arakan, Sagaing and elsewhere, Collis was district magistrate in Rangoon in 1929-1930, a period when relations"
"Herbert Thirkell White Sir Herbert Thirkell White (1855–1931) was the Lieutenant Governor of the British Indian province of Burma (1905–1910) and the author of several books on Burma, the best known of which is the classic, ""A Civil Servant in Burma"" (E. Arnold, 1913), which is based on the 32 years (1878–1910) he spent as a civil servant in that province. White also authored the fourth volume ""Burma"" of the four volume series ""Provincial Geographies of India"" which was published between 1913-23 from the Cambridge University Press under the editorship of Thomas Henry Holland. The son of Richard White, he"
"rice—half the world's supply. Orwell served in a number of locations in Burma. Having spent a year of police training in Mandalay and Maymyo, his postings included Myaungmya, Twante, Syriam, Insein—(north of Rangoon, site of the colony's most secure prison, and now Burma's most notorious jail),—Moulmein, and Kathar. Kathar with its luxuriant vegetation, described by Orwell with relish, provided the physical setting for the novel. ""Burmese Days"" was several years in the writing. Orwell was drafting it in Paris during the time he spent there from 1928 to 1929. He was still working on it in 1932 at Southwold while"
"1926-27 in the Indian Imperial Police. The British Club (including active tennis court), police station, and town jail are locations mentioned in the novel that can still be visited today. More accounts on this section is readable in Emma Larkin's ""Finding George Orwell in Burma"". Katha links with prominent Burmese writers such as Shwe U Daung, Thaw Tar Swe, ""Theik-Pan"" Muu Tin, and AFPFL leader Kyaw Nyein from Stable faction. Katha, Myanmar Katha (, ) is a town in Sagaing Region, Myanmar, on the west side of the Irrawaddy River on a bluff with an average elevation of . Most"
"until the end of the war. On January 17, 1946, he was awarded an OBE for his service in Burma. After a spell as a staff officer in GHQ India in Delhi, he then served as an instructor at the British Army Staff College, Camberley. He left the army after this posting, and moved to the United States, where he attempted to set up a business promoting walking tours in the Himalayas, one of his hobbies. The business was not a success and, to make ends meet, he decided to write of his experiences in the army. When his novels"
"which three Anglo-Burmese wars took place, and incorporated it into its Indian Empire. It was administered as a province of India until 1937, when it became a separate, self-governing colony, attaining its independence on January 4, 1948. With a strong interest in the lives of the working class, Orwell—born in India to a middle-class family, but brought up in Britain—held the post of assistant superintendent in the British Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. ""Moulmein used to be full of elephants..."" [employed to] haul logs in the timber firms. ""Ordinary tamed elephants have been part of Burmese"
"Prajim Wongsuwan Prajim Wongsuwan (, 13 August 1938 – 20 January 1990), also known by the pen name Sayumphu Thotsaphon (), was a Thai novelist and sprinter. Prajim Wongsuwan was born in Nakhon Ratchasima. He graduated school from Ratchasima Wittayalai School and subsequently enlisted in the Army Non Commissioned Officer School. Under the army's employment, he competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He later left the army (where his highest rank was Sergeant Major 1st class) and later joined paramilitary forces fighting in the Laotian civil war. He was captured and held"
"for Orwell's view that ""when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys."" Orwell spent some of his life in Burma in a position akin to that of the narrator, but the degree to which his account is autobiographical is disputed, with no conclusive evidence to prove it to be fact or fiction. After Orwell's death in 1950, the essay was republished several times, including in ""Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays"" (1950), ""Inside the Whale and Other Essays"" (1957), and ""Selected Writings"" (1958). Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years (1823–1886), during"
"was prepared to publish ""Burmese Days"" provided that Orwell was able to demonstrate it was not based on real people. Extensive checks were made in colonial lists that no British individuals could be confused with the characters. Many of the main European names have since been identified in the ""Rangoon Gazette"" and U Po Kyin was the name of a Burmese officer with him at the Police Training School in Mandalay. Gollancz brought out the English version on 24 June 1935. ""Burmese Days"" is set in 1920s imperial Burma, in the fictional district of Kyauktada, based on Kathar (formerly spelled"
"years by Burma's military government for his activities. His work was banned, and after his release he left for the West and moved to the United States as an exile. He traveled through the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Southeast Asia attending literary events. In 2004, the Netherlands honoured him with the Prince Claus Award. He died on January 22, 2007 in his home away from home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 73. Tin Moe Tin Moe (; ) (1933-2007) was a Burmese poet. Tin Moe was born Maung Ba Gyan in the village of Kanmyè in Taungtha"
"English and Japanese, been broadcast on radio, and made into a film. Khet Mar Khet Mar is a Burmese journalist, activist, writer, poet and essayist. Khet Mar was born in 1969 in Myanmar. When she was 22 years old, Khet Mar was sentenced to spend 10 years behind the bars because of her activist actions. Her writings on topics such as human rights and politics were banned in Burma. When Cyclone Nargis hit her country on May 3, 2008, there were a lot of casualties. It left 130,000 dead and Khet Mar began helping the victims of the disaster and"
"Aung Thin Aung Thin (; 17 April 1927 – 25 October 2014) was a Lifetime National Literary Award winning writer in Burma known for his continuous encouraging of youth to become a righteous man. He was born on 17 April 1927 in Taungdwingyi Township, Magway Region, British Burma. His first article, ""Breaking Thayet Prison"" was printed in ""Myawaddy Magazine"" in 1959. He became a tutor at University of Yangon in 1962 but he refused to join Ne Win's Burma Socialist Programme Party. He wrote more than 50 books on genres of ethical conducts, cultural knowledge and motivation of youth inspiration."
"the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. According to the All Burma Students' Democratic Front, U Tin Tun bought a copy of ""Khit Pyaing"", a banned political publication, for the price of 3,000 kyat, according to a close relative of Tin Tun, and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment under two different charges of violating the Emergency Provision Act and the Publishing and Printing Act. The State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) transferred Tin Tun on Friday, 14 November 1997, from Insein Attached Jail (Special Jail) in Rangoon to Thayawaddy Prison in central Burma. The junta released Tin Tun"
"granted him political asylum. U Thaung continued to condemn military rule in Burma through essays and books for the next three decades. He wrote thirty books in his lifetime, two of which-- ""General Ne Win and His Executioners"" (1990) and ""A Journalist, a General and an Army in Burma"" (1995)--became bestsellers. He also became a consultant for Radio Free Asia and served as editor in chief of the ""New Era Journal"", an independent Burmese news publication printed in Thailand and illegally smuggled into Burma. On 3 April 2008, U Thaung died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, having never returned to Burma."
"August 2008 at a private hospital in Kamayut Township in Yangon. Min Theinkha Min Theinkha (, also spelt Min Thane Kha); born Aung Htun, was a prominent Burmese writer, astrologer and political prisoner. He began his literary career in 1976, adopting the pseudonym Min Theinkha, and wrote hundreds of novels and short stories throughout his career, including notable works such as ""Manusari"", ""Ponna Ba Kun"" and ""Sanay Maung Maung"". He is best known for a series of detective novels set in Colonial Burma, featuring the hero Sarpalin Hnin Maung. He was also a well-known astrologer and later taught astrology from"
"""Aung San Suu Kyi"", Burmese Press Scrutiny Board asked for many cuts in the translation. The Burmese translation won the Myanmar National Literature Award in 2012. The Glass Palace The Glass Palace is a 2000 historical novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. The novel is set in Burma, Bengal, India, and Malaya, spans a century from the British invasion of Burma and the consequent fall of the Konbaung Dynasty in Mandalay, through the Second World War to late 20th century. Through the stories of a small number of privileged families, it illuminates the struggles that have shaped Burma, India and"
"on the earlier history of Burma, appeared posthumously. His writings remain authoritative today and are widely cited. During the Japanese invasion in 1942 Luce and his wife escaped into India. He returned to Rangoon after the war and remained there until 1964, when, like other foreigners, he was forced to leave the country. His final fifteen years were spent on Jersey. The high esteem in which he was held by Burmese and Western scholars is reflected in the publication of the two-volume work, ""Essays to G. H. Luce"" by his colleagues and friends in honour of his seventy-fifth birthday, which"
"Trials in Burma Trials in Burma is a memoir by Maurice Collis, an English author of Irish origin who served in Burma in the Indian Civil Service under the British Empire written in 1937 describing events in 1929-30. After postings at Arakan, Sagaing and elsewhere, Collis was district magistrate in Rangoon in 1929-1930, a period when relations between Burmese, Indians and British became particularly difficult. In ""Trials in Burma"" he gives special attention to the political trial of J. M. Sen Gupta, mayor of Calcutta, for sedition in impromptu speeches made during a brief visit to Rangoon in 1930; also"
"massacre of pro-democracy activists in October 1973, the massacre of students at Thammasat University in October 1976 and the killing of protesters in the streets of Bangkok in May 1992. His short stories in ""Tales of Thailand"" and ""People of Esarn - The Damned of Thailand & The Kingdom in Conflicts"" deal with the subjects of deforestation, child trade, slavery, prostitution, sex tourism, drug trade, land loss, forced relocation and pollution. Pira Sudham (Pira Canning Sudham) has lived over twenty years in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and in the UK, writing short stories, poems, and his first novel, ""Monsoon"
"prior to 1947 during the colonial era included Hmawbi Saya Thein (1862–1942), James Hla Kyaw (1866-1919), U Ottama (1879–1939), Thakin Kodaw Hmaing (1876–1964), P Moe Nin (1883-1940), Pe Maung Tin (1888–1973), Po Kya (1891–1942), Theippan Maung Wa (1899–1942), Dagon Khin Khin Lay (1904–1981), Saya Zawgyi (1907-1990), Htin Aung (1909–1978), Min Thu Wun (1909-2004), Thukha (1910–2005), Chit Maung (1913–1945), Thein Pe Myint (1914–1978) who wrote the classic ""The Ocean Traveller and the Pearl Queen"", Richard Bartholomew (1926–1985) and Taw Phayar Galay (1926–2006). Younger authors who became well known in Burma include Aung Thin (born c. 1927), Mya Than Tint (1929–1998) who"
"writing a book on the history of Burma's student movement. Although he was sentenced to 7 years of hard labor, his sentence was commuted the following year, after the visit of American congressman Tony P. Hall. He was cremated at the Yayway Cemetery in Yangon. Ohn Myint Thakin Ohn Myint () was a notable Burmese journalist, best known for his political involvement in British Burma. In 1933, he joined the Dobama Asiayone, an indigenous anti-colonial organization where he earned the honorific ""Thakin,"" (lit. ""master""), which was used in protest of British colonialism (since it was customary practice to address the"
"said to epitomize ""the complex, thus constantly troubled, private investigator of classic crime fiction, albeit replanted into the exotic, even surreal setting that is Thailand . . ."" ""Thailand's finest expatriate crime-fiction novelist."" —Paul Dorsey, ""The Nation"" Chad A. Evans' ""Vincent Calvino's World, A Noir Guide to Southeast Asia"" (2015) explores the historical, social and cultural context of the 15 Calvino novels written over 25 years. """"Moore's flashy style successfully captures the dizzying contradictions in [Bangkok's] vertiginous landscape.""""—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review. """"Think Dashiell Hammett in Bangkok. A hard-boiled, street-smart, often hilarious pursuit of a double murderer.""""—The"
"Min Theinkha Min Theinkha (, also spelt Min Thane Kha); born Aung Htun, was a prominent Burmese writer, astrologer and political prisoner. He began his literary career in 1976, adopting the pseudonym Min Theinkha, and wrote hundreds of novels and short stories throughout his career, including notable works such as ""Manusari"", ""Ponna Ba Kun"" and ""Sanay Maung Maung"". He is best known for a series of detective novels set in Colonial Burma, featuring the hero Sarpalin Hnin Maung. He was also a well-known astrologer and later taught astrology from his compound in Yangon Region's Hmawbi Township. He died on 1"
"""The Diseases of the Camel and the Elephant"", and decided he would be interested in a postwar job in Burma. So in 1920 he was in Burma as a Forest Assistant with the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation which milled teak, and used 2000 elephants. Initially he was at a camp on the banks of the Upper Chindwin River in Upper Burma. He was responsible for seventy elephants and their oozies in ten camps, in an area of about in the Myittha Valley, in the Indaung Forest Reserve. The camps were 6 to apart, with hills of three to four thousand"
"Naing Win Swe Naing Win Swe (; 1940–1995) a prominent Burmese writer and poet. He wrote some famous Burmese short stories and novels as revolutionist and patriot. After the failed 8888 Uprising he left Burma. He was killed in a jungle on the Thai Border in 1995 by the Burmese Army. The legend is that, as he lay dead on the battleground his comrades picked wild flowers and covered his remains with the flowers before they retreated as they didn't have enough time to bury him. Naing Win Swe's most famous book was ""Ma Thein Shin Si Pote Pay Bar"
"book became the film, ""Twilight Over Burma"", in 2015. The film was banned in both Myanmar and Thailand. Sao Kya Seng Sao Kya Seng or Sao Kya Hseng (; 1924 – disappeared in 1962) was a politician, a mining engineer, an agriculturalist and the last saopha of Hsipaw State, Myanmar from 1947 to 1959. He studied mining engineering at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, United States, from 1949 to 1953. He was graduated with a BSc degree in 1953 and then married. His bride, Sao Nang Thu Sandi or Inge Eberhard, a German-speaking Austrian student who had"
"U Ponnya Ponnya (; 1812 - ), known honorifically as U Ponnya, was one of Burma's most prominent dramatists. Ponnya is considered one of Burma's greatest literary figures, known for his elegant wit and clarity of language. Ponnya was born in 1812 to the Ponnya Thaman family, a prominent chieftain family in the town of Sale (also spelt Salay), in present-day Magway Region. Ponnya was educated the Bhamo monastic college in Amarapura. As a Konbaung Dynasty court playwright during the 19th century, he is primarily known for his morality tales. Ponnya served as one of King Mindon Min's court poets."
"(1971)"" a fictionalized semi-autobiographical novel. The story is a tragic love story of a smuggler-girl and a train-ticket-inspector on the Taung Dwin Gyi - Kyaukpaaung shuttle-train in middle Burma in late 1960s at the height of military-Socialist repression during General Ne Win's long rein. None of Naing Win Swe's novels have been published in English translation, but Naing Win Swe's poem ""Willow Tree"" is featured in the Foreign Policy in Focus website of the Institute for Policy Studies. Naing Win Swe Naing Win Swe (; 1940–1995) a prominent Burmese writer and poet. He wrote some famous Burmese short stories and"