A young Englishwoman who works for a wealthy Indian family and often steals their car. Miss Derek is easygoing and has a fine sense of humor, but many of the English at Chandrapore resent her, considering her presence unseemly. Amritrao The lawyer who defends Aziz at his trial. Amritrao is a highly anti‑British man.
Mahmoud Ali Pleader (attorney) in the court, and friend of Aziz. Ram Chand, Syed Mohammed, and Mr. Haq Friends of Aziz. Mr. Das Ronny's assistant and the Hindu judge at the trial. Nawab Bahadur The wealthy, influential friend of Aziz. Mr. and Mrs. McBryde The District Superintendent of Police and his wife. Nancy Derek A guest of the McBryde's ...
A Passage to India: Character Profiles. Mahmoud Ali Mahmoud Ali is a lawyer, and friend of Aziz and Hamidullah. He is one of the defense attorneys at Aziz's trial. He is excitable and extremely anti-British. His emotional reactions and his hatred do not serve him well in the courtroom.
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FIRST NAME | LAST NAME | DESCRIPTION |
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Adela | Quested | Woman who wants to know about Indians. Ronny's fiance. |
Cyril | Fielding | Englishman. Principal of Local Government College. |
Vakil | Mahmoud Ali | Legal adviser of the prisoner. |
Nawab | Bahadur | Political leader in Chandrapore. aka: Mr. Zulfiqar. |
Character | Description |
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Ram Chand | Ram Chand is an overly eager Indian nationalist activist; both Aziz and Hamidullah dislike him. |
Das | Das is a courteous, intelligent Hindu judge and Ronny's assistant; he has the unhappy job of presiding over the trial. |
The Nawab Bahadur (Mr. Zulfiqar) A prominent Indian and English Loyalist, meaning that despite being Indian he is strongly supportive of British rule of the Raj. He is wealthy, benevolent, and beloved by the community. However, he renounces his English title after Aziz ’s trial.
The English collector, or chief British official, who governs Chandrapore. He has been in India for two decades and is very set in his ways. Turton is stern, official, and patriotic, and though he feels an underlying hatred for most Indians he still acts tactfully when needed.
Cyril Fielding. The English principal of the government college. Fielding is an independent, open-minded man who likes to “travel light.”. He believes in educating the Indians and treats them like his peers, which separates him from the… read analysis of Cyril Fielding.
Adela Quested. A young, honest Englishwoman who comes to India to decide whether or not to marry Ronny. Adela is intrigued by India and desires to see the “real” India and befriend the locals. Later she… read analysis of Adela Quested.
Miss Derek. A young Englishwoman who works for an Indian Maharani. She is outgoing and carefree, regularly “borrows” her employer’s car, and is considered unseemly by many of the English in Chandrapore. Miss Derek is the person… read analysis of Miss Derek.
Professor Godbole. A Brahman Hindu professor at Fielding ’s college. Godbole is mysterious and spiritual, a figure associated with universal oneness. He later experiences religious ecstasy at the Hindu festival in Mau.
Hamidullah. Aziz ’s uncle and friend. Hamidullah was educated at Cambridge and became close friends with an English couple there, though he believes such friendship is almost impossible in India. He is also one of Fielding ’s close friends until Fielding’s falling-out with Aziz.
Cyril Fielding. The principal of the government college near Chandrapore. Fielding is an independent man who believes in educating the Indians to be individuals—a much more sympathetic attitude toward the native population than that held by most English in India. Fielding befriends Dr. Aziz, taking the doctor’s side against the rest ...
A young Englishwoman who works for a wealthy Indian family and often steals their car. Miss Derek is easygoing and has a fine sense of humor, but many of the English at Chandrapore resent her, considering her presence unseemly.
Adela Quested A young woman newly arrived from England, expecting to be the fiancee of Ronny Heaslop. Mrs. Moore Adela's chaperone and Ronny Heaslop's mother, by her first marriage.
Cyril Fielding The English Principal at the Government College. Professor Godbole The Hindu colleague of Fielding's. Hamidullah Aziz's uncle and eminent Moslem barrister. Mahmoud Ali Pleader (attorney) in the court, and friend of Aziz.
It's the early 1920s. Britons Adela Quested (Judy Davis) and her probable future mother-in-law Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft) have just arrived in Chandrapore in British India to visit Adela's unofficial betrothed, Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers), who works there as the city's magistrate. Adela and Mrs.
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Dr. Aziz A young Muslim Indian physician who works at the British hospital in Chandrapore, which is probably based on the city of Bankipur, a suburb of Patna in the state of Bihar. He relies heavily on intuition over logic, and he is more emotional than his best friend, Fielding. He makes friends easily and seems quite garrulous at times. His chief drawback is an inability to view a situation without emotion, which Forster suggests is a typical Indian difficulty. Aziz seems to possess a p…
A Passage to India is a reflection of Forster's visit to India in 1912-13 and his duration as private secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas State in 1921–22.
A young British schoolmistress, Adela Quested, and her elderly friend, Mrs. Moore, visit the fictional city of Chandrapore, British India. Adela is to decide if she wants to marry Mrs. Moore's son, Ronny Heaslop, the city magistrate.
Meanwhile, Dr. Aziz, a young Indian Muslimphysician, is dining with two of his Indian friends and conversing about whether it is possible to be a friend of an Englishman. During the meal, a sum…
The nature of critiques of A Passage to India is largely based upon the era of writing and the nature of the critical work. While many earlier critiques found that Forster's book showed an inappropriate friendship between colonizers and the colonized, new critiques on the work draw attention to the depictions of sexism, racism and imperialism in the novel.
Reviews of A Passage to India when it was first published challenged specific details and attitud…
• 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
• 1925 Femina Vie Heureuse
• A Passage to India (play), A play written by Santha Rama Rau based on the novel that ran on the West End in 1960, and on Broadway in 1962. A 1965 BBC television version of the play was broadcast in their Play of the Month series.
• The Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray intended to direct a theatrical adaptation of the novel, but the project was never realised.
In 1960, the manuscript of A Passage to India was donated to Rupert Hart-Davis by Forster and sold to raise money for the London Library, fetching the then record sum of ÂŁ6,500 for a modern English manuscript.