ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -This is the first edition of E M Forster’s A Passage to India, which was published in 1924. It is widely considered to be Forster’s finest work and it became his last novel, despite the fact that he remained active as a writer and critic for more than four decades after its publication.

Detailed explanation-2: -Forster’s A Passage to India, published in 1924, tells a story of the power of colonialism, the tension between spirituality and morality, and the inescapability of evil. Forster wrote this novel after traveling to India in 1912 and volunteering in Egypt during World War I.

Detailed explanation-3: -The novel’s setting is the fictive city of Chandrapore, a small Indian city on the Ganges and near the Marabar Caves.