In chapter one, Foster opens up his story by describing Chandrapore, a city along the Ganges. Chandrapore is a prototypical Indian town, neither distinguished nor exceptionally troubled, therefore this town can be taken symbolic of the rest of India rather than an exceptional case. In Chandrapore, the streets are mean, the temples ineffective, and though a few fine houses exist they are hidden away in gardens or down alleys whose filth deters all but the invited guest. Chandrapore was never large or beautiful, except for the Marabar Caves, that are twenty miles away from the city. When looking from the Bazaar in Chandrapore, the low lying area is where the Indians lived, which is not much more than mud huts. Right in the middle of the mountains between where

In chapter twelve, E.M. Foster goes into a deep description of the Marabar Caves and what they symbolize. Each of the caves include a tunnel about eight feet long, five feet high, three feet wide that leads to a circular chamber about twenty feet in diameter. Having seen one cave, has essentially seen them all. Foster then goes on to describe the Marabar Caves as a center of uncertainty, but the caves will serve as a physical manifestation of the events that takes place around the caves. Foster also creates a sense of irony surrounding the trip to the caves, but also describes the caves perhaps as unexceptional and even dull.

Here Foster is trying to describe what the sunrise and sunset looks like everyday over the city of Chandrapora. Foster also goes on and says,

In A Passage To India, Foster used geographical symbols to help us to better understand what is going on in the story between the Indians and the English. Foster also uses these symbols as descriptions to foreshadow and/or reinforce the messages about the colonialism between India and the British.

At the end of chapter one, Foster also goes into a brief description describing what the sky looks like and what it represents. Foster says,

the low lying area sits and the higher side of the mountain sits is called the civil station. This is where the people who do not belong to either the English or the India

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