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On a hot, muggy day, the eager Dr. Aziz leads an expedition to the Marabar Caves. One by one, members of the party drop out, until finally only Miss Quested, from England, is left. And so the Indian man and the British woman climb the last path alone, at a time when England's rule of India was based on an ingrained, semi-official racism, and ...
On one level, A Passage to India is an in-depth description of daily life in India under British rule. The British “Raj” (its colonial empire in India) lasted from 1858 to 1947. The prevailing attitude behind colonialism was that of the “white man’s burden” (in Rudyard Kipling’s phrase)—that it was the moral duty of Europeans to ...
About A Passage to India. Britain’s three-hundred-year relationship with the Indian subcontinent produced much fiction of interest but only one indisputable masterpiece: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, published in 1924, at the height of the Indian independence movement. Centering on an ambiguous incident between a young Englishwoman of ...
A Passage to India follows native Indian Dr. Aziz as he meets, befriends, and then dangerously clashes with English officials and tourists during the early 20th century, when Britain still maintained colonial rule over India. The novel criticizes colonialism while pondering the more personal difficulties of forming relationships with individuals of different beliefs and cultures.
Forster divides A Passage to India into three parts: “Mosque,” “Cave,” and “Temple.”. Each part opens with a prefatory chapter that describes meaningful or symbolic parts of the landscape. Chapter 1 of “Mosque” describes the city of Chandrapore and the surrounding area. The chapter begins and ends by mentioning the extraordinary ...
A Passage to India is a visually striking exploration of colonialism and prejudice, although it doesn't achieve the thematic breadth of director David Lean's finest work. Read Critics Reviews ...
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Jan 7, 2020 · A Passage to India. E. M. Forster. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 7, 2020 - Fiction - 336 pages. Britain’s three-hundred-year relationship with the Indian subcontinent produced much fiction of interest but only one indisputable masterpiece: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, published in 1924, at the height of the Indian ...
