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Aziz sits with his friend Mahmoud Ali and his uncle Hamidullah on the veranda. “Miss Quested, who always said exactly what was in her mind, announced anew that she was desirous of seeing the real India.”Ĭhandrapore, India: The young Muslim doctor Dr.Forster was homosexual, though this wasn’t widely known  his homoerotic novel Maurice wasn’t published until after his death.In 1984, the book was turned into a film featuring Sir Alec Guinness.

A Passage to India was his last novel, published when he was 45. Forster became a celebrated writer in his early 30s.Forster experienced the situation in India first-hand: In 1921, he was the private secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas.The plot is peppered with misunderstandings, mistakes and ambiguities. The novel presents a bleak picture of the Anglo-Indian relationship.British colonialism in India lasted from roughly 1858 to 1947.Forster was careful to paint a balanced picture of his characters and the Indian and English communities.His efforts come to an abrupt end when a British woman accuses him of sexually assaulting her. Aziz, a young Indian doctor, has good intentions to befriend British colonialists.Forster’s A Passage to India is the stand-out novel of the 20th century, exploring cultural differences between the British colonialists and the Indian people. Considering this, you would be forgiven for thinking this novel to be a hard read and bleak beyond endurance, were it not for the fact that its author is a master craftsman of language and one of the finest writers in world literature. It is also a tale of disappointment and pessimism as character after character abandons their attempts to bridge the gap between Orient and Occident. His tale of attempted friendships between Indians and Brits is at times funny, at times sad – but always full of respect for and a keen understanding of the two cultures that are poles apart. There are few 20th-century novels that offer a more astute insight into the complex world of colonial India and the problematic relationships between rulers and the ruled than E.M.