Conflict and Reconciliation between Rule and Resistance in A Passage To India and A Passage To England

Abstract

            The integration within Indo-British before and after the partition is a well-thought theme in Edward Morgan Forster’s novel A Passage to India and Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s travelogue A Passage to England. Forster in his novel unveils the integration difficulties within Indo-British in India before the partition. But Chaudhuri in his travelogue discerns the differences between the English and Indians after the partition. The exploration of the nature of conflict between rule and resistance, and the search for reconciliation of this conflict in both texts direct the passage of this article. By the content analysis of these books, the article follows the critical analysis of qualitative data through the thesis-antithesis-synthesis process. The research aims to probe into the nature of the conflict between Indo-British from the Western point of view on the East and the Eastern one regarding the West. It also explores the reconciliation of this conflict through the perspective of humanity. The analysis makes the future work possible to search the conflict and the reconciliation in any literary texts out of humanity.