E.M.Forster in his celebrated novel A Passage to India disseminates a horde of messages, one of which is liberal-humanistic attitude that can help stall SEPARATION, which is again a major theme of the novel. Like Whitman’s cry “Passage to more than Indiaâ€, Forster’s novel is more than an historical novel about India: it is a prophetic work in which Forster is concerned not only with the path to greater understanding of India but also with man’s quest for truth and understanding of the universe he lives in.Forster shows in the novel how man’s attempts to create unity are continually dominated and shattered by forces he cannot control. On this theme of Separation, Lionel Trilling comments, “The theme of separateness of fences and barriers , the old theme of  Pauline epistles, which runs through all Forster’s novels is in A Passage to India, hugely expanded and everywhere dominant.†The separation of race from race, sex, culture from culture is what underlies every relationship.
