Is "A Passage to India" a Post-Colonial Movie? ... After discussing the material in class, it is clear that "A Passage to India" is very much a post-colonial movie, because the British presence was still evident throughout India even though they had withdrawn from the nation. ... Britain was a key figure in the Imperialist Age, and they forced their way into India. Only after India won back their independence did the era of post-colonialism set in. ... The movie "A Passage to India" is a great example of a post-colonial movie, since the British presence is still very much evident in In...

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Fosters novel A Passage To India, Foster starts out with a short, brief description and introduction about the setting, tell us exactly where the story is going to take place. By Foster opening up his novel this way, it helps us to appreciate the Indians as the natives of the land of India. ... With this in mind it shows that at this time the English have total control and power over India. ... In this manner, Foster ends A Passage To India as a tragic but platonic love story between the two friends, separated by different cultures and political climates. In A Passage To India, Foster us...

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Passage to India The film showed many things about the way some British people behaved toward the Indian during the early 1900's. ... Moore and Adela seem like they want to explore all the wonders that India has to offer, while other people are there to make the Indians civil. ... Moore seemed interested in what he had to say about India and didn't make any judgements about India and its people. ... The British have places set up in India where the Indian people are not permitted to enter. The people in India did not seem upset about the British being there just the opposite ...

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As the Passage to India progresses, many of the characters take form and evolve. ... He goes on belittling her character saying that she is trying to hard to understand the India and the culture. ... Fielding make their comments about their jobs, women and India, they degrade the image of Adela Quested. ... Moore was the reason why she came to India. ... As Passage to India gradually continues, the true personalities and feelings of the characters within the novel become evident. ...

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A Passage to India "They didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices, no, not yet, and the sky said no, not there'- (Forster, 362). ... Forster's novel, A Passage to India, there is a clash between two cultures, England and India. ... England has colonized India and is pushing their beliefs of religion and government onto the Indians. ... Since the British took over in India, the natives have had a hatred towards the English. ... Fielding and Aziz try to defy this rule of life in the British India and become friends, but the hatred between the two countries cause...

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Such incident took place in India in 1998. ... United Nations and the U.S condemned India. ... India wanted to make a stand for itself. ... The third article by Martin Sieff titled "Passage to India" introduces political issues and represents India as center of attention. ... The article by Martin Sieff entitled "Passage to India" presents very conceited tone. ...

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In his novel A Passage to India, E.M Forster offers the reader a critique of English colonists, or Anglo-Indians as he refers to them, in colonized India. ... Moore and Adela Quested, Forster demonstrates the differences between the attitudes of the English who have lived in India for an extended period of time and those who are newly arrived in India and tend to have a more sympathetic, unbiased view of the native Indians. ... The impact of these social conventions, while apparent in English society, is amplified under the conditions in India. In contrast to the privacy of England, "Indi...

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Setting and Diction Passage to India takes place in the early 20th century when the British are still in control of India. The story takes place mainly in Chandrapore, which is a made up place in India. ... Later the story moves to Mau, a more Hindu town in India, where Aziz starts a new life away from the Europeans. ... There is much Hindu and Moslem interaction due to the fact that the story is before the two separate nations of India and Pakistan are created. ... It seems to be economically well off compared to most of India's other villages, which are poverty stricken, mainly due t...

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A Passage to India, E. ... Forster's symbolic elements within A Passage to India require the reader to contemplate the deeper issues of the human psyche. ... A Passage to India begins in the city of Chandrapore in British ruled India, a location best known for its proximity to the famous Marabar Caves. ... Reflections on A Passage to India,"" Louise Dauner comments on Mrs. ... Wilfred Stone also espouses this view of the Marabar Caves in the essay, "The Caves of A Passage to India."" ...

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Moore is the symbol of spiritual growth and discovery in "A Passage To India". ... Moore's interaction with the other characters and with India itself. ... Moore's tranquillity, of the unfamiliar Indian weather; the disruptive and dreaded "Hot Weather" that comes upon India every year and is consequently referred to throughout the novel. ... Moore feels that her presence is in India, the echo also illustrates the insignificance of every character; everything that they say forms a surrounding "boum" that is the echo. ... Moore is both a character and a symbol in "A Passage To India...

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The Premier is going to be visiting India soon. ... He describes India's social structure and shares his views on it. ... He then presents another problem with India from an economic perspective. ... When I read this passage, I thought of people who protest our education system. ... This makes the passage a turning point for the reader. ...

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Vasco would become very well known for discovering a passage that would lead them from Africa to India. ... He and crew brought back good news of trade with India. After the king had heard the good news he sent thirteen ships over to India, to make many many trades with India. ... For being a great leader they made him Portuguese viceroy of India. ... He was such a big part in the success of India. ...

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PASSAGE TO INDIA AZIZ: GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY? The chapter begins with Aziz and Miss Quested led by a guide to explore the Marabar caves. As the day passed, Aziz grew weary of Miss Quested company, as did Miss Quested of Aziz. Miss Quested asked Aziz personal questions about his marital stat...

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Aziz is angry at the presumptuousness of the call, and angry about the colonialist net England has thrown over India. ... Moore have hoped for adventure, and they talk about the frustrating difficulties of seeing the real India, when all the English people they meet only want to do English things and introduce them to other English people. ... Ronny is irritated that Adela is so concerned over the plight of the Indians, and angrily protests to his mother that he is not in India to be pleasant--he is there to establish justice and keep the peace. ... The group gets along very well--Fielding and...

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A whole subcontinent was picked up without half trying Images of the British raj in India are everywhere of late. ... At movie houses, we can savor all the hot intensities that blast a decorous English visitor the moment she steps ashore after A Passage to India, to be engulfed in a whirlwind of mendicants, elephants, snake charmers and crowds. ... The Moguls, a band of intruders of Mongolian, Turkish and Persian origin, had formally established their empire in India in 1526; by the time the British arrived, they ruled most of northern India save for a few fiefdoms still controlled by tribute...

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Hindu scriptures are written in Sanskrit, which is the ancient language of India. ... Hinduism's rituals fall under rites of passage. The rites of passage are done for birth, marriage, and death. ... The festivals vary in each part of India. ... Holi is on the full moon of Phalgun and is a festival to celebrate the grain harvest in India. ...

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Hindu scriptures are written in Sanskrit, which is the ancient language of India. ... Hinduism's rituals fall under rites of passage. The rites of passage are done for birth, marriage, and death. ... The festivals vary in each part of India. ... Buddhism is much like Hinduism in the sense that the rituals go along with rites of passages. ...

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During his life he only published five novels, the last of them being A Passage to India in 1924 (Kelvin: preface). ... (Rose: 80) A Passage to India is a novel more than a propagandistic call for political tolerance. ... In a Passage to India and A Room with A View the settings of the novels became a character themselves. A Passage to India was Forster's last novel. ... In A Room with a View Lucy traveled to Italy then came back to England and in A Passage to India Miss Adela travels to India then comes back to England. ...

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The story begins a score years before the Partition of India. ... With the passage of time she gets married and enters into life of marriage. ... The British government had to spend a lot in the war and they tried their best to keep their land in a balanced economic condition ignoring the needs of their colony, the then India. The famine of early '50's is the direct outcome of their war and negligence of India. ... The names of Shama-Huq, Zinnah, Nehru, Suhrawardy, Gandhi, Patel became familiar to literate, half-literate and illiterate people of the then India. ...

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For several months during 1912-1913 he traveled India with Syed. After this tour of India Forster spent three wartime years in Alexandria, Egypt doing work for the Red Cross. ... He revisited India in 1921-1922 working as personal secretary to the maharajah. Upon his return to England he wrote A Passage to India which was about his experiences while traveling in that part of the world. ... Unfortunately Forster's fears about A Passage to India being his last novel proved to be true. ...

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All civilizations have attempted to change their body in order to fulfill their cultures ideas of beauty, religious, rites of passage, or social obligations. ... Ear piercing is the most widely practiced piercing among cultural groups in Africa, India, North and South America. ... It was popular in Ancient Mexico and in India. Today in India and in Pakistan too, women still continue to wear nose piercing. According to an article written by Paul King and Erica Skadsenon piercing, some women in India pierce their nose to encourage a state of submissiveness. ...

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His mission was to find a northwest passage to China and create a direct route to the gold and spices, and open traffic for gold inhabitants. ... Vasco Da Gama (1469-1524): Portuguese explorer, Da Gama was most famous for his discovery of a direct sea route to India. ... Unfortunately, when they got to India, they found that the country was very commercially developed; therefore none of the European goods they brought were of great importance or value. ... Wanted to find a northeast passage, and a safer strait to open up trade with China. ... His motivation was to find India, or what was tho...

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In Hinduism, Death marks a passage since the soul has no beginning or end. ... After the cremation, the ashes are thrown into the water, and some like to take theirs to India to put on the water of the Ganges. ... The process by which an individual passes through a sequence of bodies is known as reincarnation of the soul, it signifies endless passage through cycles of life, death and rebirth, "it is the natural way the soul evolves from immaturity to spiritual illumination" When all the lessons have been worked out, one attains Moksha, this means you will exist but will no longer be pulled ba...

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Russia wanted passage across the Black Sea so they waged war against the Ottoman Empire to take it over. ... India became economically valuable to the Europeans. Since the British needed raw materials for their industrialized factories, they turned to India. The British considered India as "the brightest jewel in the crown." ...

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Along with informational technologies advancement and globalization, companies were able to send high-skilled jobs in accounting, radiology, programming and customer service to India. India is a country with 1,102,900,000 population, according to the "Demography and Census-Taking,"" from Encyclopedia of India, that is fluent in English and people are willing to perform highly skilled work for very low wages. In 1990's jobs in IT were sent to India, Malaysia, and the Philippines, where workers received on average 13 percent of an American IT specialist's salary ("Offshoring "). ... Ac...

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