The guide says Adela has gone into a cave by herself. When he comes out, he finds the guide alone outside the caves. Disconcerted by the bluntness of the remark, he ducks into a cave to compose himself. Adela and Aziz, accompanied by a guide, climb to the upper caves.Īs Aziz helps Adela up the hill, she asks whether he has more than one wife. But worse than the claustrophobia is the echo. Fielding and Godbole are supposed to accompany the expedition, but they miss the train.Īziz and the women explore the caves. Aziz and Professor Godbole, rudely breaks up the party.Īziz mistakenly believes that the women are offended that he has not followed through on his promise and arranges an outing to the caves at great expense to himself. Ronny Heaslop arrives, and finding Adela "unaccompanied" with Dr. Moore and Adela to see the Marabar Caves, a distant cave complex. Aziz.Īt Fielding's tea party, everyone has a good time conversing about India, and Fielding and Aziz become friends. At Adela's request, he extends his invitation to Dr. Moore to a tea party with him and a Hindu- Brahmin professor named Narayan Godbole. The party turns out to be an awkward event, due to the Indians' timidity and the Britons' bigotry, but Adela meets Cyril Fielding, principal of Chandrapore's government-run college for Indians. Turton, the city tax collector, invites numerous Indian gentlemen to a party at his house. Adela, however, is intrigued.īecause the newcomers had expressed a desire to see Indians, Mr. Ronny Heaslop, her son, initially thinks she is talking about an Englishman and becomes indignant when he learns the facts. Moore returns to the British gentleman's club down the road and relates her experience at the mosque. This disarms Aziz, and the two chat and part as friends. He sees a strange Englishwoman there and yells at her not to profane this sacred place. When he sees his favourite mosque, he enters on impulse. Aziz hastens to Callendar's bungalow as ordered but is delayed by a flat tyre and difficulty in finding a tonga and the major has already left in a huff.ĭisconsolate, Aziz walks down the road toward the railway station. During the meal, a summons arrives from Major Callendar, Aziz's unpleasant superior at the hospital.
Aziz, a young Indian Muslim physician, is dining with two of his Indian friends and conversing about whether it is possible to be a friend of an Englishman. Moore's son, Ronny Heaslop, the city magistrate.
Adela is to decide if she wants to marry Mrs. Moore, visit the fictional city of Chandrapore, British India. Plot summary Arrival Ī young British schoolmistress, Adela Quested, and her elderly friend, Mrs. He dedicated the book to his friend Ross Masood. Aziz's trial, and its run-up and aftermath, bring to a boil the common racial tensions and prejudices between Indians and the British during the colonial era.Ī Passage to India is a reflection of Forster's visit to India in 1912-13 and his duration as private secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas State in 1921–22. Aziz in one of the caves (when in fact he is in an entirely different cave), and subsequently panics and flees it is assumed that Dr. During a trip to the fictitious Marabar Caves (modeled on the Barabar Caves of Bihar), Adela thinks she finds herself alone with Dr. The story revolves around four characters: Dr. The novel is based on Forster's experiences in India, deriving the title from Walt Whitman's 1870 poem " Passage to India" in Leaves of Grass. Time magazine included the novel in its "All Time 100 Novels" list. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by English author E.
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