A Passage To India

by E.M. Forster (1924):

Set against the backdrop of the British

Raj and the

1920s

Indian

Independence movement, this novel is the tale of a young British schoolmistress, Adela Quested, who believes an Indian physician, Dr Aziz, assaulted her in a cave. Dr Aziz’s trial causes tensions between the British and Indians.

The book has been named in Time magazine’s “All Time 100 Novels List”, and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.