![]() ![]() Orwell had previously written about Gandhi in a number of letters and book reviews, and in his " As I Please" column in Tribune in 1944. Orwell had become well known in the United States after the publication of Animal Farm in 1946. His contributions between 19 included a number of " London Letters" discussing the Second World War, as well as pieces on politics more broadly and the London literary milieu. ![]() Orwell was a regular contributor to Partisan Review, which had been established in 1934 as an organ of the Communist Party USA but later became an anti-Communist publication. In August 1948, William Phillips invited Orwell to review The Story of My Experiments with Truth for Partisan Review. The 1948 American edition, published by Public Affairs Press, was the first edition of the full text to be published outside India. The book describes Gandhi's childhood, his time spent in London and South Africa, and life in India until the 1920s, with a focus on the author's moral and religious development. Gandhi's The Story of My Experiments with Truth was first published in serial form in Navajivan from 1925, then translated into English and published as a book in 1927. ![]() At the BBC, Orwell worked with Balraj Sahni, who had previously lived with Mahatma Gandhi at his ashram in Sevagram. Later he worked for the BBC's Indian Section, writing and producing reviews and commentaries on news for broadcast in India and Southeast Asia from 1941 to 1943. As a young man he worked for the Indian Imperial Police in the province of Burma, then part of British India, from 1922 until 1927. George Orwell was born in Motihari, Bihar, in 1903, and lived there for a year. ![]()
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