It is a picture of society in India under the British Raj, of the clash between East and West, and of the prejudices and misunderstandings that foredoomed goodwill. Criticized at first for anti-British and possibly inaccurate bias, it has been praised as a superb character study of people of one race by a writer of another. The story is told in Three parts, I, Mosque, II, Caves, III, Temple, and concerns Aziz, a young Muslim …showed first 75 words of 305 total…

…showed last 75 words of 305 total…poetry and reading Persian. He is visited by his friend Mr Fielding, the former Principal of the Government College, an intelligent, hard.bitten man. They discuss the future of India and Aziz prophesis that only when the British are driven out can he and Fielding really be friends. Among the many characters is Professor Godbole, the detached and saintly Bramin who makes his final appearance in supreme tranquillity at the festival of the Hindu temple