E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

Peter Childs is a Senior Lecturer in English at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. His publications include Modernism (Routledge, 2000) and The Twentieth Century in Poetry (Routledge, 1998).

• Introduction, I: Contexts , Contextual Overview, Chronology, Contemporary Documents, The English and the British Empire, Forster, 'Notes on the English Character' (1920), Forster, 'Liberty in England' (1935), Forster, 'Reflections on India' (1922), Forster, 'Our Diversions: The Birth of an Empire' (1924), On A Passage to Indio, Forster, The Hill of Devi (1953), Forster, letter to Syed Ross Masood (1922), Forster, letter to J. R. Ackerley (1924), Forster, letter to G. L. Dickinson (1924), Forster, letter to William Plomer (1934), Forster, 'Three Countries' (1983), Forster, interview with P. N. Furbank and F. J. H. Haskell (1952) , Forster, 'Call Me a Non-Believer' Interview with G. K. Das (1977) India, Forster, 'Syed Ross Masood' (1937), Forster, extract from broadcast talk 'India Again' (1946), Forster, The Hill of Devi (1953), On Rhythm in Fiction, Forster, Aspects of the Novel (1927) 2: Interpretations, Critical History, Early Critical Reception, Rose Macaulay, 'Women in the East' (1924), Leonard Woolf, 'Arch beyond Arch' (1924), H. W. Massingharn, 'The Price of India's Friendship' (1924), Bhupal Singh, 'Forster's Picture of India' (1934), Modern Criticism, Nirad Chaudhuri, 'Passage To and From India' (1954), G. K. Das, 'Through the Ruins of Empire' (1977), Jenny Sharpe, 'The Indeterrninacies of Rape' (1993), Bette London, 'On Mimicry: Towards a Performative Theory of Colonial Authority' (1994), David Dowling, 'Forster's Novels' (1985), Charu Malik, 'To Express the Subject of Friendship: Masculine Desire and Colonialism in A Passage to India' (1997), The Work in Performance, 3: Key passages Key Passages of A Passage to India 4:Further reading.