British-Indian and Hindu-Muslim Relationship in A Passage to India

Abstract

A Passage to Indiais presented from oriental perspective E.M.Forster as a writer belongs to the colonial block and his work as a liberal humanism comes under the shadow. The domination of orientalist culture is overt throughout the novel. Forester's mind, thoughts and activities are circumscribed by orienalist perspective. This orentalist thought creates the picture of supremacy of Anglo-Indian characters upon native- Indian characters. He belongs to different culture. There is a conflict between two different culture related people like British, Indians and native-Indian (Hindus and Muslim). The cultural conflict is the major discussion of the research. People of different culture people have different practices. Forster faces difficulty to inscribe the cultural practices held in India. Forster belongs to alien culture, however, he attempts to translate the Indian culture. As he picks the Muslim as a protagonist of the novel from the majority population from the Hindus city named Chndarpore. In his attempt to represent 'real India', Forester is failure.