Talk:A Passage to India

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I added the infobox & removed the tag.

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Rushdie's essay is 'Outside the Whale.' 'Inside the Whale' is written by George Orwell. I shall make this correction.

Some portions of this article make blanket generalizations or statements that offer more insight into the mind of the article's author than the novel. I would like to suggest re-editing to find a more scholarly tone.

Agreed. The plot summary is too detailed and does not use quotations where they would be appropriate. The author has put down assertions that are clearly not an encyclopedia's to make--"[this novel's being] perhaps [E.M. Forster's] greatest" comes to mind. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.122.246.243 (talk) 03:19, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. Whoever wrote the article made unsourced critical assertions. ("Synthesis of published material" as well as a lot of opinion.) I'm inserting an "original research" tag. Graymornings 20:38, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Question: I came across a poem by Walt Whitman called "A Passage to India" -- is this the source for the title? It seems likely. If so, that information should be stated on the page somewhere. Priceyeah 15:43, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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"A Passage to India has four central themes..." What? Was this copied from SparkNotes? The phrase/sentiment is restrictive and idiotic -- is it an incontrovertible fact that the novel contains four and only four "central themes"? Give me a break. The whole "themes" section needs work, and/or should be completely excised.Dooodle (talk) 23:39, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

The entire themes section needs to be re-written, hopefully by somebody who's actually read the book this time, not a year 10 english student. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blizzard224 (talk • contribs) 02:42, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

It also seems like the author of the themes section is calling Forster racist for saying that India is monolithic, even though the narrator says the opposite in the book.

(24.57.60.134 (talk) 02:09, 18 May 2010 (UTC))

I got rid of the material - it should definitely be sourced. So much has been written of forster, it can't be hard to find sourced stuff on the themes of the novel. --RegentsPark (talk) 03:20, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Some more material along these lines made its way back into the article, and I've removed it. Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 02:33, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Plot summary needs to be divided

The plot summary is currently too long, and I find it difficult to read. It would be much easier to read if it was divided into smaller sections, with titles. Skoojal (talk) 06:21, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

I find the current summary quite helpful.Geneven (talk) 11:32, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Contemporary readings of it

There should probably be something about: its Orientalism (it's mentioned specifically in Edward Said's book of that name); and maybe the homoerotic undertones of the Aziz-Fielding relationship, Forster being gay and Aziz seemingly being based on Sir Syed Ross Masood, "probably the first person with whom Forster fell deeply in love." (A Passage to India, Penguin, 1988, Editor's Introduction (Oliver Stallybrass), p. 8)

Assessment comment

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This article shows author bias. I removed the words "arguably his best" in line 29 of the plot introduction due to obvious author opinion. However, I believe there are more instances in this article where the author expresses his own opinion only.

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Plot summary

Needs division Addyianson (talk) 11:34, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Criticism

"Significant criticism of the novel has been performed by Benita Parry in Delusions and Discoveries: India in the British Imagination, Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism and Sara Suleri in The Rhetoric of the English in India."

This is completely meaningless. What kind of criticism? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.24.160.157 (talk) 13:22, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Postcolonial Critiques

I agree with previous critiques of this article. It seems like more of a plot summary/character analysis. I think it would be worthwhile to include more information about postcolonial/literary critiques of this work, and its contribution to Orientalism and European perceptions of India.

The sources the author listed are great starting points, but I'd suggest incorporating another text specifically discussing the text's connection to Orientalism, like "Enlightenment Orientalism to Modern Orientalism: The Archive of Forester's A Passage to India" by Maryam Wasif Khan.

Does anyone have any other source suggestions?

Emmadavis123 (talk) 20:39, 31 October 2017 (UTC)