Abstract

The well-known myth of binary- England and India creates a conflict for the contrastive attitude in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India and Nirad C Chaudhuri’s travelogue A Passage to England. The binary opposition of Anglo-Indian as colonizers and Indians as colonized leads to another set of binary, white-colored, and civilized-primitive in A Passage to India. This binary contradicts each other to form them in another set of binary, controller-controlled during the British imperial rule in India. The contrastive structure is in the form of conflict reflected in their outlook, behavior, and lifestyle in this novel. On the other hand, by an eight-week-journey in western countries, Chaudhuri, as an Indian in England, exposes what he observes in the west together with the reality of India in the travelogue. He recognizes the social binaries upholded by Jacques Derrida in A Passage to England. Chaudhuri in his book has executed this binary sense as England-India, British-Indians possessing two independent entities of the world. The two writers, through Hegel’s dialectic process, place the binary opposition implanting Derrida’s view. The article focuses on the nature of the conflict and tries to explore reconciliation of the conflicts based on the comparative analysis of two books.

Highlights

  • In his novel A Passage to India, starts his narration showing the central problem for the gaps and differences with many views in the Mosque part of the novel

  • The most glaring gap is between Indian and Anglo-Indian

  • This part cannot separate the natural encompassing sky of the globe. This setting shows the fundamental differences between them, indicating binary sense. It is screened from Indian Chandrapore behind the exuberant vegetation, meaning that the Anglo-Indian world is cut off from the Indian society

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By Mahmoda Khaton Siddika

International Islamic University Chittagong Abstract- The well-known myth of binary- England and India creates a conflict for the contrastive attitude in E. The binary opposition of Anglo-Indian as colonizers and Indians as colonized leads to another set of binary, whitecolored, and civilized-primitive in A Passage to India This binary contradicts each other to form them in another set of binary, controller-controlled during the British imperial rule in India. By an eight-week-journey in western countries, Chaudhuri, as an Indian in England, exposes what he observes in the west together with the reality of India in the travelogue. He recognizes the social binaries upholded by Jacques Derrida in A Passage to England. As per the compliance and regulations of: Global Journal of Human Social Science ( A ) Volume XXI Issue IV Version I Year 2021

Mahmoda Khaton Siddika
Introduction
Indians always try to create a good impression
But many think that he shows different views of India
Conclusion

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