Intercultural Relationships In A Passage To India

The author of “A Passage to India” uses some other characters that play a role in the intercultural relationships of the novel. These characters, in a way, were portrayed by the author as cruel to the Indians. Major Callendar was proud by torturing the Indians; Mc Bryde thought that the Indians loved the white women and he hated this fact; while Mr. Turton believes he was authoritarian (Devi, 2017). The British administrators and their wives were reserved in their behaviors towards the Indians. They saw themselves and their culture as superior (Devi, 2017). Mrs.Turton said to Mrs.Moore: “You are superior to everyone in India except one or two of Ranis and they’re on an equality” (p.42). The same case was for instance with the Turtons. “[a]t …show more content…
He was a typical British colonizer and was mean to the natives. However, worse than he could be considered his wife, Mrs.Turton, who was also present there. They did not treat the Indians properly. ‘Well, we don’t come across them socially,’ said Mr.Turton. As characters, Turtons and McBrydes can be seen as images for arrogant towards the Indians (Naghshbani and Zarrinjooee, 2015). This makes the reader think that they really do not even want to socialize or befriend with the Indians. He even said this ironically by laughing like it was an offence to them to have a friendship with them. Mr.Turton organized the Bridge Party in the honour of Mrs.Moore and Miss Quested where all the Indians were invited to attend. Anyway, it was not that he liked that thing. Mrs.Turton was the same kind of person as her husband, maybe worse. The Indians were delighted by such an action. They attended the party but the Turtons were not happy since many people went there. “I never thought any would come,” said Mrs.Turton, “I refuse to shake hands with any of the men…” (p.41). Mrs.Moore and Miss Quested wanted to meet the women who were present there. “Do kindly tell us who these ladies are,” asked Mrs.Moore. You’re superior to them, anyway. Don’t forget that,” replied Mrs.Turton. It is seen that she was an anti-Indian person as well. She was that kind of person who preferred to command all the …show more content…
Like the Turtons, he had bad attitudes towards the Indians. As a character in the novel, readers can notice that Major Callendar was a typical British. He was arrogant and irrespective towards the native population. He was the civil surgeon in Chandrapore and Aziz’s superior at the same time. He was impolite towards Aziz. Even though Callendar knew Aziz’s professionalism, he described him as a person of no courage and he even rebuked him for not accomplishing his obligations (Jajja, 2013). At the second chapter, we can notice how he sent a letter to Aziz saying that he wants to see him in his place. Aziz and his friends were sure that he did this purposely just to interrupt their dinner. “I daresay not, I daresay nothing. He has found out our dinner hour, that’s all, and chooses to interrupt us every time, in order to show his power” (p.12) However, we cannot be sure if this is the real reason for doing that. The bad thing was that he did not wait for Aziz in his home and he did not let him any letter describing why he was not present. Maybe he did that purposely. He did not mind if the Indians leave half their meal since he did not consider them equal to the British. Again, he showed his power and his ability of what he could do. “even Indians felt unwell sometimes, though naturally, Major Callendar did not think so, being in charge of a government