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  A PASSAGE TO INDIA

  BY

  E. M. FORSTER

  Author of “Howards End,” “A Room with a View,” etc.

  SECOND IMPRESSION

  LONDON
  EDWARD ARNOLD & CO.
  1924


  BY THE SAME WRITER:

  WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
  THE LONGEST JOURNEY
  A ROOM WITH A VIEW
  HOWARDS END
  THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS
  PHAROS AND PHARILLON

  _Made and Printed in Great Britain by_
  Butler & Tanner Ltd., _Frome and London_
  Copyright in U.S.A.

  TO
  SYED ROSS MASOOD
  AND TO THE SEVENTEEN YEARS OF OUR FRIENDSHIP




  A PASSAGE TO INDIA


  PART I: MOSQUE


  CHAPTER I


Except for the Marabar Caves—and they are twenty miles off—the city
of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary. Edged rather than
washed by the river Ganges, it trails for a couple of miles along
the bank, scarcely distinguishable from the rubbish it deposits so
freely. There are no bathing-steps on the river front, as the
Ganges happens not to be holy here; indeed there is 