A Passage to India

E. M. Forster · 1924 CE · Novel · English · Modernist

In the city of Chandrapore, an elderly Englishwoman and her son's fiancée ask to see the real India, and a young Muslim doctor, Aziz, offers to take them out to the Marabar caves. What happens in the caves produces an accusation, and the English and Indian communities line up on either side of it. Empire's friendships tested past breaking.

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