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How well has A Passage to India worn? This critical anthology responds by putting together postcolonial, feminist, liberal and several other voices of today which talk to each other and talk across each other to the text. The volume interrogates afresh the major characters of the text, polarities between Hinduism and Islam, myths and possibilities of cross-cultural friendships, muddle and mystery of the rape, cultural paradigms of the colony and the empire, and ...
How do texts and their readers respond to each other? Reading India, Writing England follows this line of Inquiry through the Indian fiction of Rudyard Kipling and E.M. Forster. Kipling tires to interest an insular British public in the adventure and heartbreak of empire. He uses his experience of India-derived as much from his reading as from his stay in the country-for this purpose. Forester uses Kipling, among his other resources, to crate an alternative ...