Burma would gain its independence in January 1948.Įric A. It would remain an Indian province until it was granted the status of an individual British colony in 1937. Burma was subsumed under the administration of British India, becoming a province of that colony in 1886. After three wars between British forces and the Burmese, beginning with the First Anglo-Burmese War in 1824-26, followed by the Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852, the country fell under British control after its defeat in the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1885.
Prior to British intervention in the nineteenth century Burma was a sovereign kingdom. The country that is today Burma (Myanmar) was, during the time of Orwell's experiences in the colony, a province of India, itself a British colony. The essay "Shooting an Elephant" is set in a town in southern Burma during the colonial period.
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