A Passage To India Summary

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A Passage to India unfolded an attempt to understand the real India. The entry of Miss
Adela Quested from England to India changes the atmosphere of both the novel and at the same time the relationship between India and Britain in reality. Racial politics deep rooted within prejudice amongthe British against the people of India. To the British people India is a country of weak, unreliable, dishonest, lustful country having feminine qualities. Through this novel we realize that the British people try to come close to the Indian people, but ultimately they realize it is not possible for some reasons one of which is a difference of race, superior and inferior. The suppressed and oppressed racial attitudes hover towards and oppressed racial attitudes
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He nourished the nation of equality of human being and was blamed by his own people for this nation. Miss Adela Quested like a storm had the urgency to know India after coming in India and it brought a disaster in the life of all this
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India because such type of odd geographical phenomena creates a gap both mentally and physically in between British and Indian people.
Caves symbolize multiple features of India. Like caves Indian people are subjects of mystery, muddle and surprise. As a cave is hazy and full of mystery and muddle, it is unable to understand properly for the outsider for the lack of sufficient sunlight which represents enlightenment of the British people. So as they can‟t able to understand the caves in the same way they unable to understand the Indians.
Somewhere Dr. Aziz was presented as hypocrite and a fraud in companion with
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Justice with the help of the law. The British police throws very unimpressive and vulgar attitude towards the Indian people. Hamidullah‟s role in this matter added a racial colour to make the situation more volatile. The caves episode brought another positiveness in the context of India and a negative result to the British people. Because all the Indian were untied against the colonizer British people considering that this is nothing but racial politics or tactics or a calculated conspiracy to humiliate and to insult the Indian people. Only for taking a revenge for not properly understanding India what actually it is. We can say it‟s a spark of angst, hatred and typically racial biasness. As the time passes India and British people are departing from each
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The racial supremacy also observed within the trial where the British people played the role within this judiciary system like a ruler NawabBahadur‟s reaction went against the

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