![]() ![]() Throughout the novel, the barriers of inter-racial friendship in a colonial context are explored vividly posing the question of whether it is possible for an Englishman and an Indian to ever be friends, at least within the context of British colonialism. ![]() E.M Forster’s A Passage to India represents the dichotomy between the Indian and British cultural aspects focusing the reciprocal relationship between the British colonies and the Indians in Chandapore and highlighting the contrast between the Indian and the European ideology. It also exposes the British inherent preconception toward Indians depicting the English characters as awesomely racially prejudiced, priggish, and inhumanly snobbish to the native inhabitants. It highlights the impact of ‘Englishness’ on the indigenous culture and identity. ![]() A Passage to India like every colonial discourse privileges the Europe and the European as ‘Us’, while the Indians and their culture are presented as inferior and ‘Other’. Forster portrays the colonizer’s ideology of superiority of White race and its culture and the constructed inferiority of India and Indians in this novel. E.M Forster’s A Passage to India portrays a colonial India under British imperialism, before its liberation from the occidental colonial rule. ![]()
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