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Notes
1. Bluemel has done groundbreaking work on Orwell and Anand as ex-centric ‘friends’ and ‘radical eccentrics’, but does not focus in-depth on the BBC, a time most commonly portrayed as one of increasing estrangement (George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics 18–19).
2. A letter from Anand to Darling in correspondence files at the BBC Written Archives in Caversham reveals that Darling had been a positive reader of Anand's controversial war novel, Across the Black Waters, which depicted the suffering of Indian soldiers in Flanders.
3. Chandra Bose's co-operation with the German government to support his fight for Indian independence resulted in the formation of a dissident Indian legion, the Indian National Army.
4. Anand clearly changed the intended title of this novel from All Men Are Brothers (as advertised in the 1936 edition of Coolie) on Orwell's advice.
5. Private interview with Anand's late daughter, Sushila Anand.
6. For a detailed analysis on how Orwell negotiated his political position on India with his role at the BBC see Douglas Kerr's ‘In the Picture: Orwell, India and the BBC’, Literature and History 13.1 (2004): 44–57.
7. The only work I am aware of is University of Edinburgh PhD thesis by Abha Sharma Rodrigues, ‘George Orwell, the BBC and India: A Critical Study’.
8. In ‘Negotiating a New World Order’, a forthcoming essay, I explore how Anand manipulated an uneven and variegated literary terrain. In South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947. Ed. R Ahmed and S Mukherjee. London: Continuum, 2011. 138–159.