Days in Burma

"Days in Burma" is an early novel by Orwell, in which he engages in a kind of literary confrontation with Kipling.
The life of English colonists in Burma, united in their sense of superiority over the natives, yet internally divided, tormented by snobbery and petty disputes.
The fates of the local inhabitants, seemingly Europeanized, yet having retained their deeply ingrained Eastern mentality, which is incomprehensible to the British.
Such are the main themes of this realistic work, centered on the tragic fate of an Englishman who has lost faith in the Empire.