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by E.M. Forster (Author) "Except for the Marabar Caves - and they are twenty miles off - the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (28 Jul 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 014144116X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141441160
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 40,203 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the ‘real India’, they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. 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. A masterly 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.


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Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) wrote six novels - Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924). Maurice , written in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971. He also published two volumes of short stories; two collections of essays; a critical work (Aspects of the Novel); The Hill of Devi; two biographies; two books about Alexandria; and the libretto for Britten's opera Billy Budd. Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and is the author of The Romantics: A Novel and An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My review on A Passage to India, 19 Aug 2006
By P. DATTA "Pritthijit Datta" (Stockton on Tees, Teesside) - See all my reviews
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A Passage to India by E.M Forster is a story about the British Commonwealth. As you know and may have learned from history, Britain ruled India for 200 years, until independence was declared in India from August 15th 1947. The novel is a historical journey when British imperalism in India was present and reflects how life was like within the raj period. Forster protrays an accurate and vivid picuture in the minds of the reader of about life in India.

The main plot of the story is about a young British girl (Adela) who wants to escape from the brutality and prejudice behaviour surrounding the British community to explore and gain authentic experience of India. He meets a well respected doctor (Dr Aziz) who is later involved in a scandal, which results into conflicts amongst British and Indian communities. The story is a historical flavour of life in India those days and how British rule affected Indian society. That is the general gist of the story.

A Passage to India is an interesting and excellent piece of British Commonwealth history. If you have a strong passion for history, I recommend you read the novel before watching the movie.
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5.0 out of 5 stars East and West Can Never Meet?, 19 Jan 2008
By Ford Ka (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
  
Almost a century after the book's publication the most crucial problems it discussed are as current as they were during Forster's life. The impossibility of communicating across the divide of culture, religion, and race, seems to be even more alive then when he saw it. The value of the novel lies not so much in representing it but in the fact that Forster offers a way out - personal contact. There is little chance people will suddenly like Muslims, Pakistanis, gays, lesbians, Moroccans, Turkish, Kurds etc etc - there is a chance (a very slim chance, Forster would be quick to add) that an American and a Muslim, a Turk and a Kurd, an Israeli and a Palestinian can be friends. The world may not want it, the people that surround them may not want it but the results depend on us alone. If we do not try we only have ourselves to blame.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Passage to India, 8 Aug 2007
By Demob Happy "jamesewan" (London / Grenoble) - See all my reviews
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E.M Forster's classic novel is a savage critique of English colonial attitudes towards the Indian 'subject race' during the British Raj. Having then visited India with his friend Syed Masood - whom this book's principle character is said to be loosely based on - Forster was well-equipped to expose the hypocrasy and racism of Anglo-India.

Tautly written and witheringly sardonic, few characters survive unscathed in this grimly pessimistic portrait of the times. So much so that it is a rather dispiriting read in 2007, when we no longer need Forster's acerbic wit to enlighten us on the arrogance and cruelty of the Empire. Sadly this makes it a rather contemporaneous, even dated read; arguably more interesting as social history than as a novel. This is partly because the characterisations are largely unsympathetic, even the young Indian doctor Aziz, who comes across as overly garrulous and emotional.

In fact, the subtext of the friendship between Aziz and the English schoolmaster Fielding gradually overrides 'the Marabar case' that is central to the novel. Fielding - the only voice of reason and dissent among the British ex-pat community - probably best represents the authorial perspective, but is a rather sketchily drawn character. More a plot device than a real human being, his relationship with Aziz seems to mirror that of Forster and Masood's, suffering many peaks, troughs and changes of heart. In 2007, the homosexual undertones read much more explicitly, no doubt, than they could be at the time of the book's publication.

Nevertheless, the fluctuations of their friendship also embody the uneasy bedfellows of 'emotional' India and the reserve and rationality of the British, and whether they can ever truly connect. 'Not yet', says Aziz in the final paragraph. Even the fictional setting of the novel, Chandrapore, is described in such a derogatory way that the novel makes a stifling, claustrophobic read - like the Marabar caves themselves. Clearly an important work of and about its time, and written with the cutting precision of a master craftsman, but somehow a little obsolete today.
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