Racial Politics in E. M. Forester’s A Passage to India

Abstract

Abstract

M. Foster’s A Passage to India is not written onbiased form but a critical point of view from a man who belongs the British empire. The novel explores the complex relationship of the peoples of India and the British people who captured India as a ruler. Through the intimation or the closeness which was one probable presupposition from both sections but E.M. Foster in a very subtle way draws the internal lines which holds the non-superficial relationship of these both sections. Forster’s purpose was meaningful introspection to know India maximum possible way from various angles. In that connection, Elleke Boehmer throws his perception, ?In stark contrast, the final scenes of E.M. Foster’s study of latter-day colonial India, A Passage to India (1904), hold out little hope either for social interaction between European and Indians, or for Indian National Independence British rule is represented as irrelevant ?.? (Boehmer, Elleke, 1995; 101).