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    The representation of socio-cultural oppression in E. M. Forester’s a passage to India
    (UMT, Lahore, 2018) Muhammad Wasim Haider
    The study targeted to scrutinize the illustration of social and cultural subjugation of the native people by the hands of the imperial power; British Empire. Forester reinforced the imperialistic ideology and portrayed the Indians as a marginalized and inferior race. The novelist, unintentionally, criticized the colonizer and sympathized with the subjugated Indian masses. The miserable life of the natives and constant disrespect and humiliation were the major causes which created the colonial tension. The natives faced suppression and were made ashamed of themselves after the injection of inferiority complex into their veins. A Passage to India, allegorically, unveils the fact that the Indian soil and landscape resisted against the invader, and, they were never welcomed by the atmosphere and geography. The racial differences and stereotypical concept about the orients never allowed the two populations to come closer and live in harmony with each other on the same soil. In contrast to the collective relationship between East and West, the individual friendship somewhat survived in the novel but prey to distrust and misjudgment. The novel finishes with an open end revealing that the relationship might build and bitterness might squeeze when the East and West stand on equal grounds.