Days in Burma

Burmese Days is an early novel by Orwell in which he enters into a kind of literary rivalry with Kipling.
The life of the English colonials in Burma, united in their sense of superiority over the natives, but internally disunited, tormented by snobbery and petty squabbles.
The fates of the local inhabitants, who have apparently become Europeanized, but have retained deep inside an eastern mentality that is incomprehensible to the British.
These are the main themes of this realistic work, which centers on the tragic fate of an Englishman who has lost faith in the Empire.