A Passage to India: A Few Observations

Edward Morgan Forster, a liberal humanist in his outlook ,shows in his novel A Passage to India the British wonderful their order 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 companionable duty. In some other words their relationships with the Indians are those of the political and social roles they play. Ronny Heaslop puts the caseful of the British rulers when he says, We are out here to do referee and keep the peace..We are not pleasant in India and we dont intend to be pleasant.Weve something more important to do.In so removed as the fact goes , this is a convincing description of the venal and unfirm ways of Indians in their contacts with the British. merely all these flaws, Forster takes pains to show are the do of the humiliating and undignified rule of the Brit ish over the Indians. Un manage other critics of British rule, Forster does not question the set of the British to be in India. His main objection is that it is an order of force and will , not of do it and understanding.Mr. Fielding in many ways appears to resemble E.M.Forster.The world he believed ,is a globe of men who are trying to reach whizz another and can best do so by the attention of goodwill plus culture and intelligence.Dr. Aziz who has suffered numerous slights and humiliations from the British , now at last feels that Fielding is a true friend of the Indians No sideman understands us except Mr. Fielding.The very first scene , where Dr. Aziz throws down his bicycle and enters a bitterly jocular discussion of Is it possible to be friends with an Englishman?, presents him as an animated, warm, impulsive, gloomy and somewhat childlike ,careless and sensitive gentleman.Sometimes he is kind, sometimes he is revengeful especially when he clamps brutal and revengeful dem ands upon hapless Adela after his release. Aziz, in MOSQUE section 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 blood ,is intelligent, intellectual, eager to understand new things and experiencesShe goes on,Fielding says, as if shes at a lecturetrying hard to understand India and life and now and again taking a note.She cannot tolerate prejudice and borrowed opinions and feels indignant at the English for being 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 seminal fluid 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 amiable humanistic way. The significance of the title of the first section is that like the ambience in the sanctum sanctorum Mosqueit imbues the dialectic of positive affirmation.