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  1. Forster suggested in "A Passage to India" that the subcontinent would forever be beyond the understanding of Western analytical minds, and that attempts to impose European ways upon it were bound to be futile and likely to be ridiculous. "Heat and Dust" makes the same argument by telling us two love stories, one set in the 1920s, the other set in the present day.

  2. Olivia, his wife (The Nineteen Twenties in the Civil Lines at Satipur) Julian Glover. ... Crawford - The District Collector (The Nineteen Twenties in the Civil Lines at Satipur) Susan Fleetwood. ... Mrs. Crawford - The Burra Mensahib (The Nineteen Twenties in the Civil Lines at Satipur) Patrick Godfrey.

  3. When Anne (Julie Christie) discovers a long-forgotten family scandal involving her deceased grandmother, Olivia (Greta Scacchi), she decides to investigate further by traveling to the scene of the ...

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  4. Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. The search leads back to the early 1920s, when Olivia, recently married to Douglas, a civil servant in the colonial administration, comes to live with him in India. Slowly, Olivia becomes fascinated by India and by the local ruler, a ...

  5. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2005. Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times. TOP CRITIC. Heat and Dust contains wonderful sights and sounds and textures. It is seductive, treating both of its ...

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  7. Cross-cutting between two generations, James Ivory's sprawling epic of self-discovery is also a lush evocation of the prismatic and sensuous beauty of India.

  8. Overview. Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Novel, Writer.

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