They find that they have much in common: both were married twice and have two sons and a daughter. He warns her about walking alone at night, because of poisonous snakes and insects. Moore, and tells Aziz that she is newly arrived in India and has come from the club. Aziz then apologizes for assuming that she would have forgotten. He reprimands her, telling her that she has no right to be there and that she should have taken off her shoes, but she tells him that she did remember to take them off. Suddenly, an elderly Englishwoman arrives at the mosque. The Islamic temple awakens Aziz's sense of beauty for Aziz, Islam is more than a mere Faith, but an attitude towards life. Aziz then leaves to go to the nearly mosque paved with broken slabs. Lesley, take Aziz's tonga (carriage), thinking that his ride is their own. The servant at the compound snubs Aziz, telling him the major has no message. Aziz leaves, traveling down the various streets named after victorious English generals, to reach Major Callendar's compound. A servant arrives, bearing a note from the Civil Surgeon Callendar wishes to see Aziz at his bungalow about a medical case. Hamidullah Begum, a distant aunt of Aziz, asks him when he will be married, but he responds that once is enough. Hamidullah, educated at Cambridge, claims that it is possibly only in England, and the three gossip about English elites in India. Mahmoud Ali are smoking hookah and arguing about whether it is possible to be friends with an Englishman. Aziz arrives by bicycle at the house of Hamidullah, where Hamidullah and Mr. This places the story in context of the town of Chandrapore in particular and the nation of India in general.ĭr.

It is significant that Forster does not begin the novel with the description of any particular character. By beginning the novel with a mention of the Marabar Caves, Forster foreshadows later events that will occur concerning the Marabar Caves and that will provide the narrative turning point of A Passage to India. This allows the actions that occur in the following chapters to be representative of the Anglo-Indian colonial relations that will dominate the events of the novel. This town can therefore be taken to be symbolic of the rest of India rather than an exceptional case. Forster establishes Chandrapore as a prototypical Indian town, neither distinguished nor exceptionally troubled. The first chapter of A Passage to India describes the setting of the novel. Chandrapore is a city of gardens with few fine houses from the imperial period of Upper India it is primarily a 'forest sparsely scattered with huts.'

Forster begins A Passage to India with a short description of Chandrapore, a city along that Ganges that is not notable except for the nearby Marabar caves.

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