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In A Passage To India, Adela’s accusation of Aziz as her assaulter possesses threefold significance. Firstly, it serves as a justification for the English imperial project aimed at ‘civilizing’ savages. Secondly, it is a projection of the colonial English’s fear and anxiety in the unknowable and incomprehensible India. Lastly, it exposes the cruel reality of the colonial English’s dehumanization of the Indian natives.

Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz

Analysis of an extract from the novel A Passage to India

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"Abandoning his bicycle, which fell before a servant could catch it, the young man sprang up on to the verandah. He was all animation. "Hamidullah, Hamidullah! am I late?" he cried. "Do not apologize," said his host. "You are always late." "Kindly answer my question. Am I late? Has Mahmoud Ali eaten all the food? If so I go elsewhere. Mr. Mahmoud Ali, how are you?" "Thank you, Dr. Aziz, I am dying." "Dying before your dinner? Oh, poor Malimoud Ali!" "Hamidullah here is actually dead. He passed away just as you rode up on your bike." "Yes, that is so," said the other. "Imagine us both as addressing you from another and a happier world." "Does there happen to be such a thing as a hookah in that happier world of yours?" "Aziz, don't chatter. We are having a very sad talk." The hookah had been packed too tight, as was usual in his friend's house, and bubbled sulkily. He coaxed it. Yielding at last, the tobacco jetted up into his lungs and nostrils, driving out the smoke of burning cow dung that had filled them as he rode through the bazaar. It was delicious. He lay in a trance, sensuous but healthy, through which the talk of the two others did not seem particularly sad-they were discussing as to whether or no it is possible to be friends with an Englishman. Mahmoud Ali argued that it was not, Hamidullah disagreed, but with so many reservations that there was no friction between them. Delicious indeed to lie on the broad verandah with the moon rising in front and the servants preparing dinner behind, and no trouble happening. "Well, look at my own experience this morning." "I only contend that it is possible in England," replied Hamidullah, who had been to that country long ago, before the big rush, and had received a cordial welcome at Cambridge. "It is impossible here. Aziz! The red-nosed boy has again insulted me in Court. I do not blame him. He was told that he ought to insult me. Until lately he was quite a nice boy, but the others have got hold of him." "Yes, they have no chance here, that is my point. They come out intending to be gentlemen, and are told it will not do. Look at Lesley, look at Blakiston, now it is your red-nosed boy, and Fielding will go next. Why, I remember when Turton came out first. It was in another part of the Province. You fellows will not believe me, but I have driven with Turton in his carriage-Turton! Oh yes, we were once quite intimate. He has shown me his stamp collection." "He would expect you to steal it now. Turton! But red-nosed boy will be far worse than Turton!" "I do not think so. They all become exactly the same, not worse, not 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. Do you not agree with me?" "I do not," replied Mahmoud Ali, entering into the bitter fun, and feeling both pain and amusement at each word that was uttered. "For my own part I find such profound differences among our rulers. Red-nose mumbles, Turton talks distinctly, Mrs. Turton takes bribes, Mrs. Red-nose does not and cannot, because so far there is no Mrs. Red-nose." "Bribes?" "Did you not know that when they were lent to Central India over a Canal Scheme, some Rajah or other gave her a sewing machine in solid gold so that the water should run through his state?" "And does it? "No, that is where Mrs. Turton is so skilful. When we poor blacks take bribes, we perform what we are bribed to perform, and the law discovers us in consequence. The English take and do nothing. I admire them." "We all admire them. Aziz, please pass me the hookah." "Oh, not yet-hookah is so jolly now." "You are a very selfish boy." He raised his voice suddenly, and shouted for dinner. Servants shouted back that it was ready. They meant that they wished it was ready, and were so understood, for nobody moved. Then Hamidullah continued, but with changed manner and evident emotion.

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Kokila Mathur

Forster's response to the repeated queries of his readers about the meaning and significance of the central incident of the experience of the 'ou-boum' in the Marabar Caves, was often in negatives as India presented itself as an unexplainable muddle. His personal correspondence reveals that he desired to write something beyond the field of action and behaviour and that India was full of such wonders, but he felt it was withheld from him. 'A Passage to India' ends in a situation of impasse, and the question of friendship between East and West hangs in the air. The text opens up to a Derridean play, a range and complexity of Derrida's thoughts. Forster's text presents a Derridean 'trace' of the indefinable as outside the arch there seemed always an arch, beyond the remotest echo a silence. Keywords: mystery; muddle; nothingness; undecidability; aporia; ‘pas’; ‘sans’;

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this paper shows a historical and post-colonial reading through A passage to India Mansfield park

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The focus of this article is the figure of “the Indian gentleman,” a friend of Sara's late father, and who later becomes her surrogate one, to clarify what this most Orientalised Englishman embodies. In other words, the story is read as the recovery of his English masculine identity. Examining the plot development from his perspective will make it possible to interpret the “happy” ending as the resolution of racial, cultural, and gender ambiguity as represented by him. It is also an opportunity to historicise the story in the India-England relationship during the age of “New Imperialism.” Having done this, it will be possible to re-examine the role of the heroine Sara in that context, as well.

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