# Passage to India

An audiobook by E. M. Forster, read by LibriVox volunteers (13 h 43 min, English).

E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) is widely acclaimed as one of the hundred best literary works of 20th century. Time magazine rates it among the top 100 English-language novels of all time. A Passage to India is set at the moment when the lasting supremacy of the British Raj could no longer be taken for granted. Imperial power had been effectively supported by old and deep-seated religious and cultural conflicts between India’s Hindu and Muslim populations, which divided and sapped the local powers ultimately needed to overthrew imperial rule in 1947. Forster illustrates how this rift begins to be overshadowed by the increasing resistance of all Indians to the extreme racism, oppression and socio-political mismanagement of British rule. The work is perhaps best known for his brilliant development of the relationships between his characters, which are fraught by a wide range of precarious cultural, social, political and economic dualisms: e.g., Occident / Orient; imperialist / colonial; men / women. He carries the idea expressed in his famous words “only connect” (from Howards End) to its limits, examining the difficulties – often the inherent impossibility – of…

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## Chapters

1. Chapter 1 (7:00): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_01_forster_64kb.mp3
2. Chapter 2 (35:03): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_02_forster_64kb.mp3
3. Chapter 3 (27:17): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_03_forster_64kb.mp3
4. Chapter 4 (7:55): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_04_forster_64kb.mp3
5. Chapter 5 (35:36): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_05_forster_64kb.mp3
6. Chapter 6 (22:12): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_06_forster_64kb.mp3
7. Chapter 7 (50:22): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_07_forster_64kb.mp3
8. Chapter 8 (50:29): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_08_forster_64kb.mp3
9. Chapter 9 (34:51): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_09_forster_64kb.mp3
10. Chapter 10 (4:19): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_10_forster_64kb.mp3
11. Chapter 11 (19:59): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_11_forster_64kb.mp3
12. Chapter 12 (9:36): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_12_forster_64kb.mp3
13. Chapter 13 (17:05): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_13_forster_64kb.mp3
14. Chapter 14 (53:37): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_14_forster_64kb.mp3
15. Chapter 15 (8:59): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_15_forster_64kb.mp3
16. Chapter 16 (23:26): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_16_forster_64kb.mp3
17. Chapter 17 (10:13): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_17_forster_64kb.mp3
18. Chapter 18 (15:07): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_18_forster_64kb.mp3
19. Chapter 19 (21:01): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_19_forster_64kb.mp3
20. Chapter 20 (33:40): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_20_forster_64kb.mp3
21. Chapter 21 (3:16): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_21_forster_64kb.mp3
22. Chapter 22 (33:39): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_22_forster_64kb.mp3
23. Chapter 23 (9:36): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_23_forster_64kb.mp3
24. Chapter 24 (51:43): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_24_forster_64kb.mp3
25. Chapter 25 (17:50): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_25_forster_64kb.mp3
26. Chapter 26 (28:44): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_26_forster_64kb.mp3
27. Chapter 27 (14:22): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_27_forster_64kb.mp3
28. Chapter 28 (7:00): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_28_forster_64kb.mp3
29. Chapter 29 (21:39): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_29_forster_64kb.mp3
30. Chapter 30 (13:24): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_30_forster_64kb.mp3
31. Chapter 31 (25:45): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_31_forster_64kb.mp3
32. Chapter 32 (3:24): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_32_forster_64kb.mp3
33. Chapter 33 (21:47): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_33_forster_64kb.mp3
34. Chapter 34 (12:18): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_34_forster_64kb.mp3
35. Chapter 35 (19:36): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_35_forster_64kb.mp3
36. Chapter 36 (33:54): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_36_forster_64kb.mp3
37. Chapter 37 (17:21): https://archive.org/download/passage_to_india_2207_librivox/passagetoindia_37_forster_64kb.mp3