A Passage to India: A Few Observations

Edward Morgan Forster, a liberal humanist in his first moment ,shows in his novel A Passage to India the British imposing their send on this kaleidoscope of India .He also suggests that theirs is an order that is unnatural , lacking in imaginative understanding of the Indian context. In their dealings with the Indians , the British as a class ,operate only at the level of political and social duty. In other words their relationships with the Indians are those of the political and social roles they play. Ronny Heaslop puts the case of the British rulers when he avows, We are out here to do justice and curb the peace..We are not pleasant in India and we dont designate to be pleasant.Weve something more important to do.In so far as the fact goes , this is a convincing description of the venal and shifty shipway of Indians in their contacts with the British.But all these flaws, Forster takes pains to show are the effects of the abase and undignified rule of the British over the In dians. Unlike other critics of British rule, Forster does not question the objurgate of the British to be in India. His important objection is that it is an order of force and will , not of love and understanding.Mr. palm in many ways appears to resemble E.M.Forster.The world he believed ,is a globe of men who are trying to reach one other and can best do so by the help of good will plus culture and intelligence.Dr. Aziz who has suffered numerous slights and humiliations from the British , now at conclusion feels that Fielding is a true friend of the Indians No Englishman understands us draw out Mr. Fielding.The very first scene , where Dr. Aziz throws down his bicycle and enters a bitingly jocular discussion of Is it possible to be friends with an Englishman?, presents him as an animated, warm, impulsive, moody and fairly childlike ,careless and sensitive gentleman.Sometimes he is kind, sometimes he is vindictive specially when he clamps brutal and revengeful demands upon h apless Adela after his release. Aziz, in MOSQUE atom is somewhat conservative about his views on Islam.Lionel Trilling is right to say of him, For good or bad he is human.Adela Quested , right from the beginning ,is intelligent, intellectual, intense to understand new things and experiencesShe goes on,Fielding says, as if shes at a lecturetrying hard to understand India and life and occasionally taking a note.She cannot tolerate prejudice and borrowed opinions and feels indignant at the English for creation so ruthless in their treatment with the native Indians. But Adela in her own opinion is as follows, I can do his right and that right but when they are put together they come wrong.Thats the defect of my character.E.M.Forster has manifold messages to disseminate, but the main is to deal with the Indians in an pleasing humanistic way. The significance of the title of the first section is that like the standard pressure in the sanctum sanctorum Mosqueit imbues the dialectic o f positive affirmation.