Talk:A Passage to India

message: I added the infobox & removed the tag.
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Rushdie's essay is 'Outside the Whale.' 'Inside the Whale' is written by George Orwell. I shall make this correction.
Some portions of this article make blanket generalizations or statements that offer more insight into the mind of the article's author than the novel.  I would like to suggest re-editing to find a more scholarly tone.
Agreed.  The plot summary is too detailed and does not use quotations where they would be appropriate.  The author has put down assertions that are clearly not an encyclopedia's to make--"[this novel's being] perhaps [E.M. Forster's] greatest" comes to mind.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.122.246.243 (talk) 03:19, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
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message: micheal chen is a scientific theory, it is an it not a what it isall but whom. micheal breaks the first five laws of physics Overall miche4al chen is a nut raped up in a nut shell  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.192.216.81 (talk) 03:27, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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message: "A Passage to India has four central themes..." What? Was this copied from SparkNotes? The phrase/sentiment is restrictive and idiotic -- is it an incontrovertible fact that the novel contains four and only four "central themes"? Give me a break. The whole "themes" section needs work, and/or should be completely excised.Dooodle (talk) 23:39, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I got rid of the material - it should definitely be sourced. So much has been written of forster, it can't be hard to find sourced stuff on the themes of the novel. --RegentsPark (talk) 03:20, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Some more material along these lines made its way back into the article, and I've removed it. Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 02:33, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor 

message: The plot summary is currently too long, and I find it difficult to read. It would be much easier to read if it was divided into smaller sections, with titles. Skoojal (talk) 06:21, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot summary needs to be divided 

message: Substituted at 06:19, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Needs division Addyianson (talk) 11:34, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot summary 

message: "Significant criticism of the novel has been performed by Benita Parry in Delusions and Discoveries: India in the British Imagination, Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism and Sara Suleri in The Rhetoric of the English in India."
This is completely meaningless. What kind of criticism?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.24.160.157 (talk) 13:22, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: I agree with previous critiques of this article. It seems like more of a plot summary/character analysis. I think it would be worthwhile to include more information about postcolonial/literary critiques of this work, and its contribution to Orientalism and European perceptions of India. 
The sources the author listed are great starting points, but I'd suggest incorporating another text specifically discussing the text's connection to Orientalism, like "Enlightenment Orientalism to Modern Orientalism: The Archive of Forester's A Passage to India" by Maryam Wasif Khan.
Does anyone have any other source suggestions?
Emmadavis123 (talk) 20:39, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Postcolonial Critiques