100 Years of A Passage to India: International Assessments
Harish Trivedi
Price
1350
ISBN
9789354429293
Language
English
Pages
268
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2024
Series
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan

This volume commemorates 100 years of the publication of E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India.  It discusses the novel’s contexts, themes, characters and reception – including translations and adaptations – and its abiding status as a modern classic. Some of the foremost scholars of Forster’s life and work from around the world engage with the novel in terms of contemporary concerns, including history, religions, mystery, politics, colonisation, race, gender, identity, ethics and the Anthropocene. Together with scholarly explorations, the volume also offers some creative speculations.

The editor:
Harish Trivedi, former Professor of English at the University of Delhi, was visiting professor at the universities of Chicago and London.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: One Hundred Years of A Passage to India
Harish Trivedi

Reception: A Passage to India in India and the World
1. At Home with A Passage to India
Anjum Hasan
2. On Translating a Passage into Hindi
Rupert Snell
3. A Passage to India in France: Translation, Reception and International Friendship
Evelyne Hanquart-Turner
4. A Passage to India in the Soviet Bloc: The Case of Polish Translations and Their Reception
Krzysztof Fordoński
5. Visualising A Passage to India: Reimagining Forster’s Classic on Stage and Screen
Madhu Singh

Characters and Themes
6. Syed Ross Masood, Author of A Passage to India
David Lelyveld
7. ‘Something Beyond’ and ‘Unspeakable’: A Passage to India as a Vedantic Novel
Ruth Vanita
8. E. M. Forster, Christianity and the End of Empire in A Passage to India
David Jasper
9. ‘Esmiss Esmoor’: The Tragic Case of Mrs Moore in Forster’s A Passage to India
Vinita Dhondiyal Bhatnagar
10. Adela Adrift in India
Anamika
Issues and Comparisons
11. Race and Gender in A Passage to India
Gaura Narayan
12. A Passage to India: Forster’s Ethics of Engagement
Ipshita Chanda
13. A Passage to India and E. M. Forster on Rudyard Kipling
Howard J. Booth
14. The Hidden Life at Its Source: Seven Aspects of A Passage to India
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
15. The Earth Said No, the Sky Said No: Poetry and Politics in A Passage to India
Harish Trivedi

Editor and Contributors
Index