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A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. 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.
- E. M. Forster
- 1924
A Passage to India, novel by E.M. Forster published in 1924 and considered one of the author’s finest works. The novel examines racism and colonialism as well as a theme Forster developed in many earlier works, namely, the need to maintain both ties to the earth and a cerebral life of the imagination. The book portrays the relationship ...
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A Passage to India is a novel written by English author E. M. Forster, first published in 1924. The narrative unfolds in the fictional city of Chandrapore in British India during the early 20th century.
A Passage to India is a classic that must be read, and was written as taking place in the early twentieth century set against the British Raj by Edward Morgan Forster chronicling the English occupation of India in the mid-1800's.
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Aziz and two of his educated friends, Hamidullah and Mahmoud Ali, hold a lively conversation about whether or not an Indian can be friends with an Englishman in India. That night, Mrs. Moore and Aziz happen to run into each other while exploring a local mosque, and the two become friendly.
- E. M. Forster
- 1924
Forster began writing A Passage to India in 1913, just after his first visit to India. The novel was not revised and completed, however, until well after World War I and his second stay in India, in 1921, when he served as a private secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas State Senior.
The title of A Passage to India comes from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Ahmed Ali’s novel Twilight in Delhi also deals with colonialism in India, and was later referenced by Forster. Rudyard Kipling’s Kim similarly portrays the British Raj, though in a more positive light.
