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A Passage to India

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 232243549X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book A Passage to India written by E. M. Forster and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and 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 masterful 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. In his introduction, Pankaj Mishra outlines Forster's complex engagement with Indian society and culture. This edition reproduces the Abinger text and notes, and also includes four of Forster's essays on India, a chronology and further reading.

The Structure of E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India"

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Author : Wolfgang Bürkle
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638763552
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Structure of E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India" written by Wolfgang Bürkle and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: E.M. Forster published his novel A Passage to India in 1924, after he visited India beforehand in 1912 and in 1921. The novel deals in large parts with the political occupation of India by the British army and the concluding relations between the English and the native population. It is also about the friendship between the two main characters, Cyril Fielding and Dr. Aziz, with all its obstacles. A Passage to India wants to describe the differences between the Eastern and Western culture and how they might find together. This seminar paper discusses the relevant parts of the structure of this novel, which help Forster to create the gap between the cultures and the struggle of them getting together. These structural means are the use of a tripartite structure, specific locations and motifs in the novel.

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

Author : Rama Kundu
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126908370
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book E.M. Forster's A Passage to India written by Rama Kundu and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Passage To India, E.M. Forster S Masterpiece, Which Has Remained Consistently Popular And Widely Studied In India For Eight Decades, Has Also Emerged As The Most Controversial Of All His Works, To Have Received Both Enthusiastic Applause And Corrosive Criticism Across Geographical And Cultural Frontiers Since Its First Publication Till Date For Varied Reasons. The Available Corpus Of Criticism On The Novel, Quite Voluminous And Often Contrapuntal, Can Reasonably Baffle And Intrigue The Young Students. While Keeping In View The Need Of The General Students Of Our Universities The Present Study Aims At A Lucid Analysis And In-Depth Study Of The Book With Reference To Its Various Facets. The Author Who Has Been Teaching The Book To University Students For Nearly Three Decades Has Penetrated The Text With Sensitive Insight And Scholarly Command From The Varied Angles Of The Genesis, Historical Setting, Title, Themes, Structure, Characters, Narrative Technique Including Symbol, Rhythm, Language, Interterxtual Echoes, And Imperial And Postcolonial Discourses, In Addition To Providing An Introduction , A Story-Outline , And A Detailed Critical Summary Of The Entire Text, Along With A Select Bibliography And Sample Questions. The Study Will Be Immensely Useful To Students, Scholars And Teachers In The Area.

A Passage to India

Author : Edward Morgan Forster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Passage to India written by Edward Morgan Forster and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

Author : Reena Mitra
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126910045
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book E.M. Forster's A Passage to India written by Reena Mitra and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

Author : Sunil Kumar Sarker
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126907915
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book E.M. Forster's A Passage to India written by Sunil Kumar Sarker and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2007-06-13 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E.M. Forster'S Celebrated Novel A Passage To India Is Prescribed In The Syllabus Of Almost All The Universities In India, At Both The Undergraduate And Postgraduate Levels. It Is Really A Complex And Difficult Novel, And Books That Can Well Help The Students, In Particular, In Their Having A Grip On It Are Far Too Few, If Not Non-Existent. With A View To Fill This Gap And Cater To The Academic Needs Of Readers, The Present Book Has Been Written. Briefly Outlining The Life And Works Of E.M Forster, It Makes An In-Depth Study Of His Novel A Passage To India. The Key Elements Of The Novel Like Plot, Characterization, Fantasy, Prophecy, Pattern, Rhythm, Symbols, Imagery, Mystery, Poetry, Music, Tone, Etc., Have Been Analytically Discussed. In Addition, A Character-Sketch Of Prominent Characters Has Been Skillfully Presented. Further, Memorable Quotations Included In The Appendix Will Not Only Acquaint Readers With The Original Text But Will Also Infuse Them With Enthusiasm For All The Works Of Forster. Readers Of The Present Book Are Provided With Bibliography And Index Which Will Definitely Prove Useful Study-Aids To Them In Pursuing The Studies Further. For Students, Researchers As Well As Teachers Of English Literature, The Book Is Indispensable.

E.M. Forster's 'A Passage to India'

Author : Juliane Behm
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640409884
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book E.M. Forster's 'A Passage to India' written by Juliane Behm and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0 (A), Cummins Memorial Theological Seminary (USA: East Tennessee State University, Johnson City - College of English), course: E.M. Forster, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 1 Introduction E.M. Forster's last novel A Passage to India has been widely appreciated as his most brilliant, most successful, and most valuable work of art. It has received a high reputation as one of the greatest, but also "most puzzling," (Allen, 934) modern masterpieces ever written. After its publication in 1924 "it was accorded instant recognition, as a fine novel and as a perceptive and sympathetic treatment of the problem of 'Anglo-India'" (White, 641). In the novel Forster examines racial tensions between the British colonizers and the Indian people at the time of the British Raj and also the philosophical question about the nature of human relationships in general. Despite its great acclaim, it has also been highly criticized and its release gave rise to a political controversy about British imperialism because it was perceived as a clear offensive against the British imperialists. Some literary critics doubt the novel's credibility since it allegedly depicts British officials behaving too cruelly and the relations between British and Indians as unrealistic (Macaulay, 188). Although most criticism focused on its political assumptions, and Forster himself intended to express his scepticism about British imperialism in India and its destroying impact on human personal relationships, it was not predominantly intended to be a political novel. However, "as a political novel it has had a notable success" (Rutherford, 2). Forster's central purpose is the same as in his preceding novel Howard's End; he is concentrated on the issue of 'connection, ' as well as on the desire to overcome gaps of social and racial segregation, and to unify the different races

Personal Relationships in "A Passage to India"

Author : Kathrin Langner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638352676
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Personal Relationships in "A Passage to India" written by Kathrin Langner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-02-25 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Würzburg, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: E.M. Forster’s novel A Passage to India was published in 1924 and based on two personal visits of Forster’s to India in 1912 and a few years later after World War I in 1921. During his visits to India, Forster travelled a great deal and met many Indians, among them Syed Ross Masood, who was to become an intimate friend and also the basis for the character of the young Indian doctor Aziz in his novel. The friendship between them is portrayed by Forster in the friendship between Aziz and Mr Fielding, the English schoolmaster. In this way, Forster was able to experience both sides, maintaining a cross-cultural relationship and deriving from this completely new knowledge and feelings, but also the negative side with all the hardships of cultural and political misunderstandings. Forster gives a very vivid description of exactly these difficulties in his novel, and shows, without sparing the British in any one point, the state of British Rule in India at the time of his second visit. He attempts to criticise the unj ust superior behaviour of the British. Due to this narrative technique, the reader is immediately apt to sympathize with the ruled race, badly and impolitely treated by the English officials (such as Callendar, Turton, Heaslop). In his novel, the author attempts to answer a question even he had had to pose himself: Is it possible for an Englishman and an Indian to be friends? This question appears in the book on one of the first pages during a discussion of Aziz’s Indian friends, but the answer is left open for the time being. As already mentioned, the overall theme of the novel is that of relationships, friendship, and “the yearning for communication and connection” 1 which needs must lead to a “catastrophic failure” 2 of those attempted relationships due to a political and cultural world without an overall understanding for such mixed relationships or individuality. The novel is divided up into three main parts: Mosque, Temple and Caves. This structure has given much room for different interpretations, one of such which is the structure of thesis, antithesis and synthesis.

A Passage to India

Author : Laura Heffernan
Publisher : Spark Notes
ISBN 13 : 9781586638191
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book A Passage to India written by Laura Heffernan and published by Spark Notes. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Readers' Guide, Betty Jay considers the establishment of Forster's reputation and the various attempts of critics to decipher the complex codes that are a feature of his novel. Successive chapters focus on debates around Forster's liberal-humanism, with essays from F. R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling and Malcolm Bradbury; on the indeterminacy and ambiguity of the text, with extracts from essays by Gillian Beer, Robert Barratt, Wendy Moffat and Jo-Ann Hoeppner Moran; and on the sexual politics of Forster's work, with writings from Elaine Showalter, Frances L. Restuccia and Eve Dawkins Poll. The Guide concludes with essays from Jeffrey Meyers and Jenny Sharpe, who read A Passage to India in terms of its engagement with British imperialism.

A Passage to India By E. M. Forster Annotated Novel

Author : E M Forster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book A Passage to India By E. M. Forster Annotated Novel written by E M Forster and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by the English writer E. M. Forster set in opposition to the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement within the 1920s. It turned into selected as one of the hundred amazing works of twentieth century English literature by the Modern Library and received the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Time magazine protected the novel in its "All Time one hundred Novels" listing. The novel is based totally on Forster's reports in India, deriving the identity from Walt Whitman's 1870 poem "Passage to India" in Leaves of Grass.The tale revolves round four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Mr. Cyril Fielding, Mrs. Moore, and Miss Adela Quested. During a ride to the fictitious Marabar Caves (modeled on the Barabar Caves of Bihar), Adela thinks she reveals herself alone with Dr. Aziz in one of the caves (when in fact he is in an entirely special cave), and ultimately panics and flees; it is assumed that Dr. Aziz has attempted to attack her. Aziz's trial, and its run-up and aftermath, bring to a boil the common racial tensions and prejudices among Indians and the British who rule India.

A Passage to India

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book A Passage to India written by E. M. Forster and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting of A Passage to India is the British Raj, at a time of racial tension heightened by the burgeoning Indian independence movement. Adela Quested, a young British subject, is visiting India to decide whether to marry a suitor who works there as a city magistrate. During her visit, a local physician, Aziz, is accused of assaulting her. His trial brings tensions between the British rulers and their Indian subjects to a head. The novel is a complex exploration of colonialism, written at a time when the popular portrayal of the Indian continent was of mystery and savagery. Forster humanized the Indian people for his at-home British audience, highlighting the damage that colonialism caused not just to interpersonal relationships, but to society at large. On the other hand, some modern scholars view the failure of the human relationships in the book as suggesting a fundamental “otherness” between the two cultures: a gulf across which the disparate cultures can only see each other’s shadows. In any case, the novel generated—and continues to generate—an abundant amount of critical analysis. A Passage to India is the last novel Forster published in his lifetime, and it frequently appears in “best-of” lists of literature: The Modern Library selected it as one of its 100 great works of the 20th century, Time magazine included it in its “All Time 100 Novels” list, and it won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

The Importance of the Marabar Caves for Adela Quested and Mrs Moore in Edward Morgan Forster’s ‘A Passage to India’

Author : Anna Wertenbruch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656026564
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Importance of the Marabar Caves for Adela Quested and Mrs Moore in Edward Morgan Forster’s ‘A Passage to India’ written by Anna Wertenbruch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), course: Heritage Films, language: English, abstract: The novel A Passage to India written by Edward Morgan Forster was published in 1924 and has given rise to several discussions. Sixty Years later David Lean made a film based on Forster’s novel, which was representative of a whole range of films of this decade dealing with the construction of Englishness and trying to revive the imperial or Edwardian past in a nostalgic and Anglo-centric manner (Nischik 301). The film is part of the so-called heritage industry thriving in Thatcher Britain and is supported by political orders and acts like the National Heritage Act of 1980 and 1983. In that time the political importance of Britain decreased and there were challenges to the national sovereignty and unity by the European integration process as well as disintegrative developments in Northern Ireland. Therefore the construction of traditional Englishness and of imperial dominance in the cultural format of quality films became one of Britain’s most important export article (Nischik 302). But those national identities such as ‘Englishness’ are cultural constructions and symbolic self-representations which come to equate social facts. In the context of social and political integration, literary texts play an important and privileged role and complement the affirmative appeal of popular films produced for the cinema (Nischik 303). The novel A Passage to India avoids simplistic idealizations of Anglo-Indian relations and Englishness when constructing it and wants its readers to confront the truths about their inner selves and their relation to the world (Yarrow 1). Forster describes different worldviews in his novel without privileging one above another and lets his characters search for paths towards individual truths and an opening up of the deeper corners of consciousness (Yarrow 1). The Marabar Caves play an important role in the description of different worldviews and the individual truth which the characters try to find in the novel. They “represent an area in which concentration can take place. A cavity. They were something to focus everything up: they were to engender an event like an egg” (Messenger 62). Therefore the Marabar Caves in A Passage to India can be seen as the heart of the novel, both literarily, structurally and symbolically (Messenger 62).

A Passage to India

Author : E.M. Forster
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986471669
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book A Passage to India written by E.M. Forster and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-09-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Passage to India E. M. Forster - First published in 1924, A Passage to India is E. M. Forsters classic tale of prejudice and misunderstanding in colonial India. Widely considered to be one of the best novels of 20th century English literature, A Passage to India was based on Forsters own experiences in India while it was under the rule of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement was gaining in popularity. The novel centers around the tensions between the native people of India and the prejudices of the British ruling class. The central character is Dr. Aziz, a young Indian Muslim physician, who befriends several English visitors, against the advice of his Indian friends. Dr. Aziz is kind and helpful to the young Adela Quested and her elderly friend, Mrs. Moore, who are visiting India from England. He offers to take them sightseeing at a famous cave and a terrible misunderstanding ensues, which results in the innocent and trusting Dr. Aziz being accused of a terrible crime against Adela. Forsters depiction of Dr. Azizs fight for his freedom and his reputation, against the prejudices and misconceptions fostered by the British rule of India, has made this novel a timeless masterpiece of racial tension and oppression. This edition includes a biographical afterword.

The Hill of Devi

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 079534659X
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Hill of Devi written by E. M. Forster and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential companion to A Passage to India, a collection of the author’s own letters that read like “a close personal friend has shared his impressions” (Kirkus Reviews). In 1912, a young E. M. Forster traveled to India to serve as a secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas, a small Indian state. He was elevated to the rank of a minor noble, and eventually given the state’s highest honor, the Tukoji Rao III gold medal. This brief episode in Forster’s life became the basis for his masterwork, A Passage to India. In the letters included in The Hill of Devi, he shares his personal journey of discovering his beloved India for the first time. Forster paints a vivid, intimate picture of Dewas State—a strange, bewildering, and enchanting slice of pre-independence India. In this collection, Forster shares insight into the lives of Indian royalty and accounts of the stark contrast between their excesses and the poverty he encounters. From letters that set the scene for Forster’s lifelong friendship with the Maharaja, to an essay on the Maharaja himself and Forster’s experiences as the Maharaja’s personal secretary, The Hill of Devi is a fascinating chronicle of the author’s experience in the land he called “the oddest corner of the world outside Alice in Wonderland.”

A PASSAGE TO INDIA

Author : E. M. FORSTER
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A PASSAGE TO INDIA written by E. M. FORSTER and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 1969 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hard-hitting novel, first published in 1924, the murky personal relationship between an Englishwoman and an Indian doctor mirrors the troubled politics of colonialism. Adela Quested and her fellow British travelers, eager to experience the "real" India, develop a friendship with the urbane Dr. Aziz. While on a group outing, Adela and Dr. Aziz visit the Marabar caves together. As they emerge, Adela accuses the doctor of assaulting her. While Adela never actually claims she was raped, the decisions she makes ostracize her from both her countrymen and the natives, setting off a complex chain of events that forever changes the lives of all involved. This intense and moving story asks the listener serious questions about preconceptions regarding race, sex, religion, and truth. A political and philosophical masterpiece

A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)

Author : William Heppell Mason
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book A Passage to India (E.M. Forster) written by William Heppell Mason and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1965 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Intercultural Relationships and National Identities in E.M. Forster ́s Novel 'A Passage to India'

Author : Sarai Jung
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638644340
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Relationships and National Identities in E.M. Forster ́s Novel 'A Passage to India' written by Sarai Jung and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-08-26 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2+ (B), University of Würzburg (Philosophy Institut II - Anglistics), course: Writing the British Empire, language: English, abstract: E.M. Forster ́s novel "A passage to India" was published in 1924. The work is largely based on the personal experiences Forster made during his two visits to India, which are the source of the striking authenticity of the text. Forster experienced the possibility of another view of life, that was opened up to him through his Indian friendships. On the other hand, he got to know the difficulties that spring up from so profoundly different approaches to life as the ones of the West and the East. Due to his own attitude of liberal-humanism and his belief in the freedom of action and the individuality of each human being as the basis for any political action, he was upset by the racial oppression, the cultural misunderstandings and the hypocrisies he found in Anglo-India. Forster ́s novel is clearly concerned with the doubtfulness of the concept of superiority. It puts forth the question to what extent a culture can claim to be a civilized nation and in virtue of what it can be justified to impose one ́s own way of life upon another culture. The author provides us with a vivid picture of Indian concepts and Indian sets of values without judging them or separating right from wrong. His suggestion seems to be to accept the co-existence of such alternatives. More complex is the problem of intercultural relationships. How can barriers be torn down and bridges be built? To this question, Forster does not give a definite answer. He suggests a flourishing interchange between the races until the necessary cultural sensibility is achieved. At several points in the novel, the author hints at the general possibility of a peaceful relation between the two races: All the Indians who had been in England had had only positive experiences. But with