A passage to india by em forster5/13/2023 I am an Indian, it is an Indian habit to take pan. ’If my teeth are to be cleaned, I don’t go at all. ’Had you not better clean your teeth after pan?’ ’On the one hand he always does this, on the other it may be a serious case, and you cannot know,’ said Hamidullah, considerately paving the way towards obedience. He has found out our dinner hour, that’s all, and chooses to interrupt us every time, in order to show his power.’ ’He might have the politeness to say why.’ ’Old Callendar wants to see me at his bungalow,’ he said, not rising. A servant in scarlet interrupted him he was the chuprassi of the Civil Surgeon, and he handed Aziz a note. India – a hundred Indias – whispered outside beneath the indifferent moon, but for the time India seemed one and their own, and they regained their departed greatness by hearing its departure lamented, they felt young again because reminded that youth must fly. Neatly juxtaposing aspects of both cultures, the novel begins with the young Indian Dr Aziz dining with two Indian friends in the city of Chandrapore when he receives a summons from Major Callendar, his superior at the hospital. Forster’s novel, based on his own experiences in India, shines a harsh light on the relationship between the British Raj and the educated Indian in the 1920s.
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