A Passage to India presents the conflict between the British and India under British rule. The British saw themselves as superior to Indians and imposed their culture and Christian religion while attacking Indian traditions. They used the caste system to control Indians in different roles and determine who deserved respect. The main character, Aziz, a Muslim doctor, faced disrespect from the British due to his class and heritage. The novel examines the racism of the British and its negative impacts on Indians like Aziz during this time period.

1. A Passage to India presents
the British-India conflict .
Prepared by :
Mona Hamed Alotaibi
Tahani Ahmed Alamri
Abrar Awad Alenzi

2. A Passage to India, a complex and multi-faceted work
considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.
The British imperialism in India entailed a fundamentally
racist set of beliefs about "indian," were considered
them passive, weak, illogical, and morally corrupt with a
tendency toward despotism.

3. India under British control The British saw India as a trophy they had
won in battle, and if they were militaristically superior, they were
obviously politically and socially superior as well. The British used
the Caste system as a way to utilize the people in india based on
their significance in society and along with that, their importance to
the British in order to optimize the use of the people. Along with the
use of the caste system, the British could determine which members
of society could be trusted and deserved respect. Aziz was a doctor
and in India, doctors were a high member of the caste system and
therefore, subject to the potential respect of the British.

4. India underwent persecution for both their religious and traditional
ways of life by the British. Their Hindu, Buddist, and other religious
stands came under attack by the predominantly christian British.
They also attacked the Indian culture. They put a stop to such
traditions young marriages and dowry in society. Just as the Indians
were persecuted on grounds of tradition and religion, Aziz was
accused in the book. However not on the same grounds, the Indians
and British took sides and because of the accusations on and Indian
for an offense against a British woman, the British all sided with
Adela Quested while Indians remained loyal to their own such as
fielding did during the trial.

5. In A Passage to India, Aziz represented a very emotional
character, and he dealt with much disrespect regarding
his class and heritage by the British but at certain times
he stood up for what he believed, just like the whole of
India at that time. They allowed themselves to be
subjected to the English rule, but their history is not
without revolts such as the revolt of 1857.

6. Be that as it may, the novel represents a sincere attempt to inhabit
Aziz's mind, to show the effects of living as an Indian under
British rule, and to show how the racism of a Turton or
Callendar prevent them from recognizing not only Aziz's
innocence, but also the validity of Indians' appeal for an
independent nation. Perhaps in the end the novel gives us the
tools to critically examine itself so that we might finally read
Aziz's last gesture to Adela not as the illogical, inconsistent
gesture of an illogical, inconsistent Oriental, but as the
expression of a generous spirit.