Racialism In A Passage To India

Rudeness, Race, Racism and Racialism are but negative human values.
They inculcate hatred and differences in human beings. The terms “a
Master Race, Racial Superiority, The Special Creation, The Survival of the Fittest, Natural Selection, Existence for survival” etc are coined due to these values. In positive attitude, they are for identification. However,

∗ Gulzar Jalal Yousafzai, Assistant Professor, English Department, Edwardes
College, Peshawar
∗∗ Prof. Dr. Qabil Khan, Chairman, Department of English, Qurtuba Universality
Peshawar
Rudeness, Race, Racism and Racialism in E.M. Forster’s “A Passage to India” Gulzar & Qabil
The Dialogue 76 Volume VI Number 1 the nations and communities exploit them in negative attitude. According to New

It is based on a long history, philosophy, psychology, interaction, relation and the attitude meted out to the Indians by the then
English rulers. The Attitude set history and long terms relations, impact and future perspectives. E.M. Forster, due to his subtle observation, realized this philosophy and discussed it in his novel, A Passage to India.
It is a reflection of his insight. From the very beginning till the end, in A
Passage to India, there are occasions, characters, and incidents where biased and prejudiced attitude of the communities, in India, is exposed.
Forster highlighted the various human values. His thesis is that violation of the human values is the root cause of tension. His approach is quite realistic. He blames the English rulers and their adopted attitude. He says, “A community that bows the knee to a Viceroy and believes that the divinity that hedges a king can be transplanted, must feel some reverence for any viceregal substitute. At Chandrapore the Turtons were little gods”2
. He keenly observes the overall attitude of the major
Communities towards each other and finds them very biased, partial, disgusting, and prejudiced. “The roads, named after victorious

Most of the people you see are seditious at heart, and the rest,d run squealing … the Pathan – he is a man if you like21”.. However, not only with Indians, a group of the English people also developed a negative attitude about the English, people of their own community. “Mrs. Turton closed her eyes … Mr. Fielding wasn’t pukka, and had better marry Miss
Quested, for she wasn’t pukka22

From chapter number II, the existence of tension is realized. Dr
Aziz, a medical doctor, Mahmoud Ali, an advocate, and other friends are discussing the behaviour of the members of the English ruling community and their changed attitude after coming to India. Dr Aziz says that “they all become exactly the same – not worse nor better. I give any Englishman two years, be he Turton or Burton. It is only the difference of a letter. And I give any Englishwoman six months. All are exactly alike.23 Mrs. Turton is a viable example of negative attitude.”
The average woman is like Mrs. Turton.24 They also observe, “The
Englishmen had intended to play up better, but had been prevented