Burmese days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Sit in British Burma during the waning days of Emire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British Raj. At the centre of the novel is John Flory, the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger systime that undermining the better side of human nature. The novel describes both indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, after all, natives were natives.
