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In 1957, E M Forster wrote of his greatest work: “The India described in *A Passage to India* no longer exists either politically or socially. Change had begun even at the time the book was published (1924) and during the following quarter of a century it accelerated enormously … there was the termination of the British Raj; there was the division of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan and the entry of them both into world affairs; there was the abolition of the Native states; there was the weakening of purdah and of caste; there was the increase of industrialism. All these changes occurred in the 1940s, and with them has come the double impact on the peninsula of the USA and the USSR – two countries which are not mentioned in the novel at all.” The subcontinent has changed even more since 1957, yet, as Robert McCrum wrote in *The Guardian *in 2014, “*A Passage to India* stands as a strangely timeless achievement.” Forster’s achievement was reached after. . . full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/a-passage-to-india-enduring-art-in-changing-times/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
