A Passage to India

E.M. Forster wrote A Passage to India after visiting the country several times as a child. The story is about a Muslim Indian doctor named Aziz and his relationships with an English professor named Cyril Fielding and a visiting English schoolteacher named Adela Quested. The book was published in 1924.

When Adela suspects Aziz of assaulting her while visiting the Marabar caves near the fictional city of Chandrapore, where the story is set, tensions between the Indian and colonial British communities rise. The conflict explores the possibility of friendship and connection between English and Indian people, despite their cultural differences and imperial tensions. The novel's vivid descriptions of nature and the Indian landscape, as well as the figurative power that they are given within the text, cement it as a great work of fiction.

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