'Burmese Days' and 'Passage to India'; A Caricature

As people have already pointed out, there are many similarities between Burmese Days and A Passage to India.  The former book was published a decade after the latter, so it is not inconceivable that Orwell read PtI and was influenced by it.  In both cases, a picture of the Anglo-Indians is being painted, and there is a friendship between the eccentric Englishman and the Indian doctor, which leads the Englishman to stand up on his friend's behalf.  These similaries, however, serve to highlight the contrasts.  Aziz and Veraswami are almost polar opposites of each other in their attitutes to the British Empire.  Adela and Elizabeth arrive with opposite expectations of India/Burma.  Flory is much more insecure than Fielding... the list goes on.  Where Forster painted a more realist portrait of the Anglo-Indians and their world, Orwell paints a caricature, despite him terming Burmeses Days a 'naturalistic novel' in his article 'Why I Write'.  By doing this, Orwell is perhaps stripping his novel down to its basic agenda - as an expose of the folly of imperialism, much as PtI was oft cited as a reason why the British should leave India.