A Passage to India

In A PASSAGE TO INDIA, E. M. Forster examines the British upper class outside their familiar environment. Miss Quested, a young Englishwoman traveling in India for the first time, insists that she has been sexually assaulted by Aziz, a young Indian doctor, while visiting the Marabar Caves. When he protests his innocence, the Indian community is outraged and tumultuously defends him. In the resulting story, Forster writes discerningly and sympathetically about the clashes between the British Raj and its colonial subjects.