![]() A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of. ![]() This edition reproduces the Abinger text and notes, and also includes four of Forster's essays on India, a chronology and further reading. Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century, A Passage to India is set in pre-Independence India. In his introduction, Pankaj Mishra outlines Forster's complex engagement with Indian society and culture. A masterful portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world. In this hard-hitting novel, first published in 1924, the murky personal relationship between an Englishwoman and an Indian doctor mirrors the troubled. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. ![]() Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. ![]() He invites a group of them out to explore the Marabar Caves. ![]() It is about the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. Forster in which Aziz, a Muslim man, struggles to make friends with the English. When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Forster wrote the book A Passage to India in 1924. ![]()
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