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 other key issues. Eighty years down the road, it attempts a searching study of this canonical text.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Christel R. Devadawson
Christel R. Devadawson is a Reader at the Department of English, University of Delhi. She has edited Jane Eyre, A Passage to India, and with G.K. Das, an anthology of critical essays on Forester's A Passage to India. Her research interests include South Asian lifewriting and English Romanticism. As Teape Lecturer 2001 at the University of Cambridge she delivered the series of lectures, 'Travelling through Britain: India's road to postcolonialsim'. Reading India, Writing England is the product of her doctoral study of Kipling and Forester as a Cambridge-Nehru scholar.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR G.K. Das
G.K. Das, who retired as Professor of English, University of Delhi, after havaing served as Vice Chancellor, Utkal University and Director, University of Delhi, South Campus, revisits the territory of Forster studies to edit this anthology. His work on English Romanticism and D.H. Lawrence notwithstanding, Forster has remained a constant ever since his doctoral research at Cambridge was published as E.M. Forster's India.
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