id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2600 A Passage to India - Wikipedia .html text/html 4191 444 71 The story revolves around four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Mr. Cyril Fielding, Mrs. Moore, and Miss Adela Quested. In the novel's last sentences, he explains that he and Fielding cannot be friends until India is free of the British Raj. Literary criticism[edit] Reviews of A Passage to India when it was first published challenged specific details and attitudes included in the book that Forster drew from his own time in India.[8] Early critics also expressed concern at the interracial camaraderie between Aziz and Fielding in the book.[9] Others saw the book as a vilification of humanist perspectives on the importance of interpersonal relationships, and the damage colonialism wrought on society.[10] More recent critiques by postcolonial theorists and literary critics have reinvestigated the text as a work of Orientalist fiction contributing to a discourse on colonial relationships by a European. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2600.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2600.txt