A Critical Study of the Novel A Passage to India by E.M. Foster

Abstract

A Passage to India is an extraordinarily good masterpiece of E. M. Forster, an eminent English novelist who served in India during the British rule in the Indo-Pak-Bangladesh subcontinent. He was exceedingly in touch with the social, political, cultural and religious stipulations of the Indians who were below the subjugation of the British as their colony. His thought about the manner and etiquette of the Indians as well as his experience made it handy for him to make a contrast between the two classes of human race the Indians and the British with the aid of writing the e book mentioned above the place he made his endeavour to state whether or not pleasant relationship is possible between the two nationalities representing the colonisers and the colonised. For this purpose, relevant facts were collected via an open-ended questionnaire to some Masters college students who read this novel. Moreover, a semi-structured interview of our junior colleagues having lookup work in the field has been carried out to mirror their attitudes in this regard. With this end in view he has depicted a good range of Indians and English characters in his novel in conjunction with his principal thought or philosophy about the Indian topics and the superiority of the British displaying signs of psychological conflict with a diversity and difference in their way residing and thinking that has overshadowed the possibility of friendship. In spite of this, every teachers and students engaged in educating and mastering activities will advantage from this research work. Our most important focal point is to disseminate new ideas to others in pursuing this research work. This paper is moreover to analyze the colonial worldview characteristic of the friendship between the English and the Indians in the early 20th century represented in E. M. Forster’s novel A Passage to India. The socio-cultural contacts between the British colonizers impersonated in the novel as the British characters and Musli.