Themes In A Passage To India

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reductive way, “when they had not cheated, it was bhang, women, or worse, and the desirables wanted to get some thing out of him”. This is what is called the construction of the East by the Western narratives as discussed by Said.The same is ratified by Cronin, who maintains that his India existed for him even before he visited it in 1920. His India was given to him and created by Forster in A Passage to India (1989). While the Indian foods are conspicuous by their absence, the English food and the menu of Anglo-India is provided. “Julienne soup, full of bullety bottled peas, pseudo-cottage bread, fish full of branching bones, pretending to plaice, more bottled peas with the

He loses his head, abuses his chauffeur, behaves badly towards Miss Derek, while the white men are presented as men of grace and poise. The narrator paints the Indians as indifferent to morals and individual responsibility. The bedroom of Aziz is squalid, the people there are busy in intrigues and gossip and their discontentment as shallow. The minds of the Indians are said to be inferior and rough. Dr. Aziz, an educated Indian, instead of cleaning his house, like Gandhi does in R.K. Narayan’s novel (20000), is shown only grumbling. His house is a place of squalor and ugly talk. The floors are strewn with fragments of cane and nuts, spotted with ink, the pictures crooked upon the dirty walls without a punkah . His friends are described as third-rate

“Ah, dearest Grasmere! Its little lakes and mountains were beloved by them all. Romantic yet manageable, it sprang from a kindlier planet”. While Gandhi (Narayan,2000) declares the flowing rivers of India as beautiful and finds the sunrise full of colours and the air so fresh .In Forster’s India, the plane is untidy. A Pakistani writer Zulfiqar Ghose in preface to The Murder of Aziz declares the Indian landscape to be the most beautiful landscape in the world. At the sight of picnic, the presence of elephant attracts villagers and “naked