Relationship In Passage To India

A Passage to India, published in 1924, is a novel by the English author, Edward Morgan Forster. The action sets against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s, and is based on Forster’s experiences in India.

The story revolved around four characters : Dr. Aziz, a young Muslim Indian doctor who works at the British hospital in Chandrapore ; his British friend, Mr. Cyril Fielding, the 45-year-old unmarried British headmaster of the small college for Indians ; Mrs. Moore, the elderly thoughtful mother of Ronny Heaslop, the City Magistrate, who comes to India to oversee her son’s engagement to Adela Quested ; and Adela Quested, a young British schoolmistress, who is visiting India with the vague intention of marrying Ronny Heaslop. During a trip to the Marabar Caves, a mysterious accident occurs to Adela while she finds herself alone with Dr. Aziz and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that bring out all the racial tensions and prejudices between indigenous Indians and the British who rule India. The object of the essay will be to show the different human relationships present in India and the essay will be composed of two following parts : the British and Indian relationship and the Muslim, Christianity and Hindu relationship as three main religions present in the novel. To begin with, we will see how the relationship between the Indian majority and the English minority is depicted in the