A Passage to India | Literary Precedents
If one must, for whatever reasons, discuss the literary precedents of Forster's A Passage to India, one needs, quite frankly, to forget about India, for Forster's consideration of that land really rises above and beyond precedent. For example, there arises the immediate temptation to place A Passage to India beside the novel Kim (1901), by Forster's contemporary Rudyard Kipling (the two never met), but little will be gained from the exercise, other than the realization that both writers look at the same India through different colored glasses. Essentially, Kipling...
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