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Passage to India (unabridged)

What really happened in the Marabar caves? Adela Quested arrives in Chandrapore, India, prepared to marry a British magistrate who exemplifies the narrow-minded, anti-Indian prejudices of the Imperial bureaucracy. But she soon meets the charming and mercurial Dr. Aziz, who offers to show her the "real" India. An expedition to the famed Marabar caves ends in explosive accusations and a schism that foreshadows the eventual end of British rule in India.

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  • "Ben Kingsley reads from A passage to India"@en
  • "Ben Kingsley reads from A passage to India by E.M. Forster"

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  • "In het koloniale India ontstaan er conflicten tussen een jonge Britse vrouw en een inlandse arts."
  • "What really happened in the Marabar caves? Adela Quested arrives in Chandrapore, India, prepared to marry a British magistrate who exemplifies the narrow-minded, anti-Indian prejudices of the Imperial bureaucracy. But she soon meets the charming and mercurial Dr. Aziz, who offers to show her the "real" India. An expedition to the famed Marabar caves ends in explosive accusations and a schism that foreshadows the eventual end of British rule in India."@en
  • "Adela Quested travels to India with her chaperone Mrs Moore, on the premise of deciding whether to marry Mrs Moore's son Ronny Heaslop, the city magistrate. Finding her India very disappointingly English, Adela jumps at the chance the two women are given to travel to the distant Marabar caves with Aziz, a charismatic young Indian Doctor. When Adela is subjected to an attempted assault in one of the caves, Dr. Aziz is arrested and tried in court."@en
  • "Adela Quested travels to India with her fiance's mother, to visit her fiance, the City Magistrate. They befriend a young Indian man, who invites them on a picnic, and is later accused of attempting to rape Miss Quested."@en
  • "Portrays the story of Dr. Aziz, an Indian physician who is accused of attempting to rape a young Englishwoman."@en
  • "When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming mercurial Dr Aziz. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor finds himself at the centre of a scandal."@en
  • "When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming mercurial Dr Aziz. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor finds himself at the centre of a scandal."
  • "In a scathing indictment of British imperialism, Forster's once controversial novel portrays two Englishwomen who experience misunderstanding and cultural conflict after they travel to India."
  • "In a scathing indictment of British imperialism, Forster's once controversial novel portrays two Englishwomen who experience misunderstanding and cultural conflict after they travel to India."@en
  • "A young Englishwoman travels to India to visit her fiancee and is caught between the allure of the exotic Indian lifestyle and proper upbringing.--"@en
  • "Tijdsbeeld van de verhouding tussen de Engelse overheersers en de Indiase intellectuelen in India in het begin van de 20e eeuw."
  • "A resepectable Indian doctor, Aziz, is accused of sexually assaulting an Englishwoman. The charge brings ostracism by former English friends, and a major court case. Aziz, anxious to remain both Indian and acceptable to the British, faces his personal and cultural problem alone."@en
  • "Adela Quested, full of good intentions but curiously myopic, arrives in Chandrapore, fully prepared to meet and marry Ronny Heaslop, a city magistrate who exemplifies the narrow-minded anti-Indian prejudices of the imperial bureaucracy which runs the county. Adela's desire to see the "real" India annoys the whole white community."@en
  • "PLAYAWAY. When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India, they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects."
  • "While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, becomes appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young girl."@en
  • "A respectable Indian doctor, Aziz, is accused of sexually assaulting an Englishwoman. The charge brings ostracism by former English friends, and a major court case. Aziz, anxious to remain both Indian and acceptable to the British, faces his personal and cultural problem alone."@en
  • "What really happened to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalising question provides the intense drama of racial tension at the centre of Foster's last and greatest novel."@en
  • "Adela Quested is a plucky young woman who journeys from England with the free-spirited Mrs. Moore. Flouting convention, the two women accompany the handsome Dr. Azis on a tour of the mysterious Marabar Caves. But things turn ugly when Adela returns scratched and bloodied from the expedition. As British authorities urge her to press charges against Aziz, the line separating truth and fantasy begin to blur."
  • "An epic novel of the difficulties of friendship between the races in British ruled India. Set in India under the British Raj."@en
  • "Eager to know the "real" India, a group of English tourists develops a friendship with the cultivated Dr. Aziz. The veneer of trust and mutual affection is shattered during a trip to the Marabar caves, when one of the women accuses Dr. Aziz of assault. Arguably Forster's greatest novel, A Passage to India paints a troubling portrait of colonialism at its worst and, in the breach between Aziz and his English "friends," foreshadows the end of British rule in India."@en
  • "A simple expedition to visit some nearby caves turns into a trying and learning experience for British colonists and West Indian natives alike."@en
  • "Misunderstandin explodes into riot as cultures clash in turn-of-the-century British India."
  • "Just below the surface of everyday life crouches the menace of misunderstanding. A common one springs up, then explodes into a destructive affair as cultures clash in turn-of-the-century British India."@en
  • "A young Englishwoman travels to India to visit her fiancee and is caught between the allure of the exotic Indian lifestyle and proper upbringing."
  • "Misunderstanding explodes into riot as cultures clash in turn-of-the- century British India."@en
  • "An epic novel of British/Indian relations woven into a mystery set in India under the British Raj."@en

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  • "Passage to India (unabridged)"@en
  • "A Passage to India"
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  • "A passage to India [Talking Book]"
  • "A passage to India [8 tapes]"@en
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