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A Passage to India
Classic fiction
A Passage to India
In British-ruled India, Muslim physician Doctor Aziz hopes for genuine friendship with English schoolmaster Cyril Fielding and welcomes two visiting women curious about life beyond the colonial club. A disturbing incident in the Marabar Caves leads to an accusation that fractures personal trust and exposes the racial power governing every official response. Even after the legal crisis changes course, friendship remains constrained by political conditions neither goodwill nor private loyalty can simply ignore. Complex and resonant, this novel is best for thoughtful readers interested in colonialism, cultural misunderstanding, institutional prejudice, and the haunting limits of connection under unequal rule.
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Racism, racial slurs and colonial prejudice; alleged sexual assault with conflicting accounts; mob hostility and threats of violence; death and grief; religious and ethnic conflict.
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