The Real In India Or The Real India? The One And The Other

E.M. Forster's A Passage To India is often regarded as a social or political commentary on the British in India, but according to Forster himself, it is much more than that. It is '...the search of the human race for a more lasting home, about the universe as embodied in the Indian earth and the Indian sky, about the horror lurking in the Marabar Caves and the release symbolised by the birth of Krishna'.[1] Mrs. Moore is an elderly English lady who travels to India with her young companion and prospective daughter-in-law, Adela Quested.…