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          Burmese Days is George Orwell's first novel, and a searing critique of British imperialism. It is notable for deriving its plot and themes from the events of Orwell's own life.

          In 1922 Orwell traveled to Burma to become an English police officer.

          He chose Burma because he had familial relations there, and remained there until 1927 when he retired from the Imperial Police to become a writer.

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          Orwell experienced a great deal of resentment from the natives due to the growing nationalist sentiment, and details some of that in the novel. He later said that "the landscapes of Burma, which, when I was among them, so appalled me as to assume the quality of nightmare, afterward stayed so hauntingly in my mind that I was obliged to write a novel about them to get rid of them." Orwell's last station was Katha, which was the inspiration for the fictional Kyauktada.

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