A Passage to India

We may hate one another, but we hate you most . . . yes, we shall drive every blasted Englishman into the sea." On that fateful day, when Dr. Aziz took Mrs. Moore and Miss Adela Quested to the famous Marabar Caves, he had no idea that his whole life was about to turn upside down. All Aziz had done was kindly offer to show the ' real' India to the two Englishwomen who had newly arrived in his country. But on the day of the excursion, upon returning from the Caves, he was slapped with the accusation of a sexual assault. What happens when Aziz is brought to court? Does the man get justice? Or has his race earmarked him for prison? Set in the fictional town of Chandrapore, in the pre-Independence era of India, A Passage to India portrays colonialism, racial prejudice, and the dynamics of Anglo-Indian relations with striking realism. Considered Forster's most successful novel, it was adapted into a film in 1984, and was featured in Time magazine's list of hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.