colonial aspect in "a passage to india" KIU skardu campus

1. Design by Naseem Hasrat

2. Colonial activities in history (general)
Colonial aspects in “A passage to India”

3.  Definition of colony
 Colonies in ancient civilizations
 Modern colonies
 British colony
 British Raj (1858 and 1947 )
 Colonial aspect in “a passage to India”

4.  A country or area under the full or partial
political control of another country and
occupied by settlers from that country.

5.  Egyptian colony
 Phoenician colonies ( Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Syria)
 Greek colonies
 Roman colonies

6.  Portuguese
 French
 Spanish
 British Empire
The main European countries active in this
form of colonization
included Spain, Portugal, France,
the Kingdom of England, the Netherlands,

7.  By 1921, the British Empire ruled a
population of between 470 and 570 million
people, approximately one-quarter of the
world's population.
 Asia was the one of the biggest colony of
British emperor.

8.  East India company.
 Battle of Plassey.
 Sub-continent, or present-day India,
Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Myanmar.

10.  A Passage to India is an in-depth description of daily life in
India under British rule.
 Forster himself was British, but in the novel he is very
critical of colonialism.

11.  Forster also shows how the colonial system
makes the Indians hate and sometimes
condescend to the British.
 His overall message is that colonialism in
India is a harmful system for both the British
and the Indians.
 Friendships like that between Aziz and
Fielding are a rare exception, and even such
friendships are all but destroyed by the
problems and tensions of colonialism.

12.  In this novel “A passage to India” Forster
portrays most of the British men working in
India as at least unoriginal.
 But their positions in the colonial system
almost always push them towards becoming
racially prejudiced.
 This is played out most explicitly in the
development of Ronny’s character.

13.  The colonialists are by necessity in the role
of “oppressor,” no matter how individually
kind or open-minded they might be.
 This is best shown in the changes to Aziz’s
character throughout the novel, as he goes
from laughing at and befriending the English
to actively hating them.
 Friendships like that between Aziz
and Fielding are a rare exception, not the
rule, and even such friendships are all but
destroyed or thwarted by the problems and
tensions of colonialism.

14.  It also a realistic documentation of the
attitudes of British colonial officials in
India.
 Forster spends large sections of the novel
characterizing different typical attitudes the
English hold toward the Indians whom they
control.

15. "They ship them in ice-cold rooms. You can
make India in England apparently, just as
you can make England in India“.
 This hints at the economic exploitation.

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