Causes and Origin of Racial Tension in ‘A Passage to India’

Abstract

Abstract

The paper traces the problematic relationship between different races and political conflict in a colonial context as Forster has given a pen picture in his novel, ‘A Passage to India’. The British colonized India had left an impact on many different levels of life and culture. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India explores the relationship between the colonized, an Indian doctor, and the colonizer, a British schoolmaster. The aim of this paper is to focus on the conflict between the English and the native Indians again between the Hindus and the Muslim. From the history it can be learnt that Indian Sub-continent was once ruled by the British. The text highlights the relationship of the colonizers i.e the British and the colonized i.e the people of Indian Sub-continent. It can be hoped that the text will bring the readers to have an idea on the socio-economic picture as well as socio-psychological dilemma of Anglo Indians during the period of the British Raj.