When Adela and her elderly companion Mr Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandropore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India, they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr. Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurts while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of omperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught in the great politial and cultural conflict of the modern world.