A Passage To India Summary

There are many notable moments in Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The Indian cultural faces many obstacles and are constantly discriminated against because of who they are. The Indian culture is looked at as poor and because of this are not given the same opportunities as others who are white. In one of the most notable moments of this novel Arnold reflects on this idea that Indians are just poor. This moment gives insight to the reader of how people in society look at those who are not the same as them.

India was under imperialistic rule by the British Empire or the “Bristish Raj” from 1858 to 1947.The region under British control—commonly called “India” in the British period included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom as well as the “princely states” ruled by individual rulers under the paramount of the British throne. In my recent visit to London precious jewels and Indian made goods are displaced in Windsor castle under high security. Most of the goods accumulated from India were under Queen Victoria’s reign; the other monarchs who were reigning during this imperialistic time were Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, and George VI. W.E.B Dubois writes in “the Souls of White Folks,” “We see Europe’s greatest sin precisely where we found Africa’s and Asia’s,—in human hatred, the despising of men; with this difference, however: Europe has the awful lesson of the past before her, has the splendid results of widened areas of tolerance, sympathy, and love among men, and she faces a greater, an infinitely greater, world of men than any preceding civilization ever faced.” England took advantage of its darker counterparts by showing superiority through color, religion, and technological advances.

Imperialism is the domination of one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country. Imperialism is more often than not fueled by two major schools of thought known as nationalism and Social Darwinism. Nationalism is a feeling of pride and devotion to one’s country. This can drive a person to think that their country is the most powerful, and in essence drives that person mad with power and a hunger to conquer, which not ironically is exactly what many countries did. Social Darwinism is the very idea that a more powerful country conquer the smaller countries. “Survival of the fittest,” as the well renowned Charles Darwin used to say. Imperialism is also sometimes sparked by military motives, such as when USA set up

1~ Even if the indias change in looks, in the hearts they are still savages

She explains her thesis by stating “Others who write stories of migration often talk of arrival at a new place as a loss of communal memory and the erosion of an original culture. I want to talk of arrival as a gain,” (360). The key points of the text include Mukherjee describing her transition between Calcutta and the United States, and what it means to be and American and how culture influences that aspect. The information in the text is significant; the people of America are a part of a melting pot, sometimes it is hard for them to find the distinction between American culture and their own. The information in Mukherjee’s story is clear and specific, unbiased, and is relevant to the purpose of the story. I believe Mukherjee has achieved her purpose of informing her audience about cultural differences; she presents certain strengths and weaknesses within the text.

Throughout the years many historians have compilated and examined why Indian people were so desperate to gain back their independence from the British Empire during their rule over India, from 1612 to 1947. The reasoning can most definitely be found as the British discriminated against Indian people as they believe that they were inferior; it is no surprise that Indian people fought so hard for their independence. Throughout the British Raj, they placed and put forward unbelievably racist acts and laws which discriminated against Indian people. Which of course led to Indians to rebel against the British rule and which the British reacted with causing massacres. Explaining the nationalistic many India’s felt during the British Raj.

This story starts off in the streets of England. The main character is named Samuel Collier. He's caught when he tries to steal his mothers locket from a pawn shop. The person who catches him brings him to the ship yard to join the expedition to America. His capturer says to Captain John Smith that he is a hard worker so he would be good to take on the trip.

Work was abundant in a post-WWII Britain and British governmental officials willingly accepted West Indian workers. It was “accommodation and getting on with people” (84) that would pose difficulty for the West Indian immigrants. Before touching on the difficulties facing Caribbean immigrants, it is necessary to consider the attitudes of the White-British towards West Indian labourers who worked in the country during the wartime. These attitudes give context for the difficulties future West Indian immigrants would face. After the war, the White-British expressed their racism and clear anti-immigrant sentiments to the West Indian laborers who were a necessary labour force during WWII. In an interview with Cecil Holness, a West Indian labourer of the wartime, he expresses that the White-British did not see the need for West Indians in Britain after the war had finished. According to Holness, the first question many White-British asked was, “When are you going back to your own country?” (81) In another interview with William Naltey, he talks about the time where he overhears a conversation between two White-British women, in which one says, “Isn’t it about time they went back to their homes?” (81) These quotes serve as clear indicators for the hateful attitudes displayed by the White-British towards West Indian immigrants and that would continue to affect new

We just started to leave Independence rock, I discovered that it's been getting hotter and hotter on the trail towards Oregon. We've had a couple cows die from bad water, and some chickens got crushed by the wheels of my wagon. We all are sunburned from the blazing sun, and we don't have any medication for that besides long sleeve shirts. I'm surprised that we haven't had any Indian attacks yet, I thought those would happen a lot. Hopefully when we do see some Indians, they will be friendly and kind instead of wanting to steal from us and kill us. I'm sure that we will encounter some good and bad ones along the south pass, so we should always be ready since we are very far from any stores or any other people. I have a pistol on the side of

So what does it mean to be Indian in the late nineteenth and early twentieth? They had a separation of categories mainly the name of anomalies, as for the book the figure illustrates “Red Cloud Woman” this was a figure for the american culture and society (Deloria, 5). As for expectations, expectations are almost invariably raced, classed, and gendered. They can be colored by religious practice and by regional location touched by sexuality, transformed by national difference and global exchange (Deloria, 7). The role of Indians was very complicated, expectations, ideology, discourse and power shaped Indians in American

This incident began his life long battle against all discriminations. Although he debated returning to India, his duty came first. “It would be cowardice to run back to India without fulfilling my obligation. The hardship to which I was subjected was superficial-only a symptom of the deep disease of colour prejudice. I should try, if possible, to root out the disease and suffer hardships in the process. Redress for wrongs I should seek only to the extent that would be necessary for the removal of the colour prejudice.”

There has been an archaic existing fear of anything different from the norm becoming present, however having something different may bring about positive change, diversity, and new knowledge. Yet people are reluctant to accept something different and instead make efforts to change the differences to match the way things normally and dominantly are. This fear and reaction is the reason for why efforts of assimilation occur, so that the dominant can integrate the minority and to conform to the dominant culture. Writer Sarah Ahmed discusses the issues of migration, assimilation, and what it really means to be happy in her chapter “Melancholic Migrant.” She traces the links between white culture and happiness; the idea of the whiter you are the happier you are. Ahmed presents arguments of other scholars, like Trevor Phillips, that present the notion of migration being the root of unhappiness in communities with people of different racial backgrounds living together and running into conflicts (122). She goes on to explore how the British government tries to resolve these diversity conflicts among their British citizens and Asian immigrant population. The British Empire promoted civilized kind of pleasure that they assumed could not be found in the Indian culture, but only in the British culture. Based on the excuse of Indians being uncivilized the British made attempts to colonize them. The British held the belief that India does not have culture and thus the

Impact of British Colonization Exposed in A Small Place, A Passage to India, and Robinson Crusoe

A Passage To India by E. M. Forster is a rich, postcolonial novel delving into the possibility of sustaining a personal friendship between an English person and an "Indian" person. This topic is being discussed in the beginning of the novel at the home of Hamidullah, "... they were discussing as to whether or no(t) it is possible to be friends with an Englishman. Mahmoud Ali argued that it was not, Hamidullah disagreed, but with so many reservations..." (Forster 7) Aziz, who the novel centers around, has the disposition to just shut them out and ignore them and all will be jolly. Of course, later, we find Aziz does not shut them out and rather

E.M. Forster’s classic novel “A Passage to India” tells the story of a young doctor, Dr. Aziz, and his interactions with the British citizens who are residing in India during the time of the British Raj. Throughout the novel, the reader gets many different viewpoints on the people and the culture of India during this point in history. The reader sees through the eyes of the Indian people primarily through the character of Dr. Aziz, and the perceptions of the British through the characters of Mr. Fielding, Adela Quested, and Mrs. Moore. Through the different characters, and their differing viewpoints, the reader can see that Forster was creating a work that expressed a criticism that he held of the behavior of the British towards their Indian subjects.