For five years he had been part of an evil system, an oppressive and hypocritical racket, and he was haunted by the faces of the people whom he had treated as if they were SUb-human: Innumerable remembered faces-faces of prisoners in the dock, of men waiting in the condemned cells, of subordinates I had bullied and aged peasants I had snubbed, of servants and coolies I had hit with my fist in moments of rage. He left Burma with a very bad conscience. He joined the Indian Imperial Police and spent five years, from 1922 to 1927, carrying the white man's burden in Burma and accumulating thereby an intolerable weight of guilt that took him many years to expiate. The Politics of George Orwell ICarlyle King When George Orwell left Eton he was so heartily sick of being a poor boy among rich boys that instead of proceeding to the university he immediately went into the ranks of the British governing class. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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