This material also reveals significant gaps in the published narrative some parts of the story provoked profound discomfort in British society at that time. Peter Jones, Fellow-Librarian at Kings College, followed up his earlier lecture on Leonard Woolf with a discussion of how archive material relating to A Passage to India sheds light on Forster's personal and political understanding of India.
It gives a fictionalised account of his time there – but this account, as we learned from this lecture, is a long way from being the full story. Lecture by Peter Jones, King’s College, Cambridge, 5 June 2021 Blog post by Lisa HutchinsĪ Passage to India (1924) draws extensively on Edward Morgan Forster's experiences of living in India during two extended trips made around a decade apart. Forster, A Passage to India: Ends of Empire. He carries the idea expressed in his famous words “only connect” (from Howards End) to its limits, examining the difficulties – often the inherent impossibility – of “connection” across racial, sexual, religious and social divides.E. The work is perhaps best known for his brilliant development of the relationships between his characters, which are fraught by a wide range of precarious cultural, social, political and economic dualisms: e.g., Occident / Orient imperialist / colonial men / women. Forster illustrates how this rift begins to be overshadowed by the increasing resistance of all Indians to the extreme racism, oppression and socio-political mismanagement of British rule. Imperial power had been effectively supported by old and deep-seated religious and cultural conflicts between India’s Hindu and Muslim populations, which divided and sapped the local powers ultimately needed to overthrew imperial rule in 1947. Time magazine rates it among the top 100 English-language novels of all time.Ī Passage to India is set at the moment when the lasting supremacy of the British Raj could no longer be taken for granted. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) is widely acclaimed as one of the hundred best literary works of 20th century. Download cover art Download CD case insert A Passage to IndiaĮ.
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