Aziz, a young Indian Muslim physician, is called from dining with friends by Major Callendar, Aziz's superior at the hospital, but is delayed. Moore's son, Ronny Heaslop, the city magistrate.
Adela is to decide if she wants to marry Mrs. Moore, visit the fictional Indian city of Chandrapore. Plot summary īritish schoolmistress, Adela Quested, and her elderly friend, Mrs. He dedicated the book to his friend Ross Masood. View of the Rajgir Hills, an inspiration for the fictional Marabar Hills.Ī Passage to India is a reflection of Forster's visit to India in 1912–13 and his duration as private secretary to Tukojirao III, the Maharajah of Dewas Senior in 1921–22. Aziz's trial, and its run-up and aftermath, bring to a boil the common racial tensions and prejudices between Indians and the British during the colonial era. Aziz in one of the caves (when in fact he is in an entirely different cave whether the attacker is real or a reaction to the cave is ambiguous), and subsequently panics and flees it is assumed that Dr. During a trip to the fictitious Marabar Caves (modeled on the Barabar Caves of Bihar), Adela thinks she finds herself alone with Dr. The story revolves around four characters: Dr. The novel is based on Forster's experiences in India, deriving the title from Walt Whitman's 1870 poem " Passage to India" in Leaves of Grass. Time magazine included the novel in its "All Time 100 Novels" list. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by English author E.
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