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By Prof.R.R.Borse, Asst.Prof., BP Arts,SMASci,KKCCom.College,Chalisgaon
Plot summary • Arrival • Two British women Adela Quested, and her elderly friend, Mrs. Moore, visit the city of Chandrapore, British Indiato be friend with Indians. • Adela is to decide if she wants to marry Mrs. Moore's son, Ronny Heaslop, the city magistrate. • Dr. Aziz, a young Indian Muslim physician- he thinks it is possible to be a friend of an Englishman. • At mosque he enters and meets an Englishwoman Mrs. Moore, and the two chat and part as friends. • Mrs. Moore returns to the British club shares her experience at the mosquewith Adela and Ronny. • Ronny Heaslop, her son, initially thinks she is talking about an Englishman and becomes angry when he learns the facts. • Adela is excited to meet Indians.
Bridge Party • Mr. Turton, the city tax collector, invites numerous Indian gentlemen to a party at his house to help the Englishwomen to meet Indians. The two groups British and Indians show a drama of harmony. • Adela meets Cyril Fielding, principal of Chandrapore's government-run college for Indians. Fielding invites Adela and Mrs. Moore to a tea party with him and a Hindu-Brahmin professor named Narayan Godbole. • At Adela's request, he also invites Dr. Aziz.
Fielding's tea party • At Fielding's tea party, everyone has a good time conversing about India, and Fielding and Aziz become friends. • Aziz promises to take Mrs. Moore and Adela to see the MarabarCaves. • Ronny Heaslop arrives, and finding Adela "unaccompanied" with Dr. Aziz and Professor Godbole, rudely breaks up the party.
MarabarCaves • Fielding and Prof. Godbole fail to come at Marabar caves as they miss the train. • Aziz arranges a trip to the caves at great expense to himself. • Aziz and the women explore the caves. • In the first cave, Mrs. Moore is overcome with an echo and scared. • Mrs. Moore declines to continue exploring. • Adela and Aziz, accompanied by a guide, climb to the upper caves.
Adela's illusion • Adela asks Aziz whether he has more than one wife. • He is disturbed and runs into a new cave alone to cool himself. • When he comes out, he finds the guide alone outside the caves. • The guide says Adela has gone into a cave by herself. • Aziz looks for her in vain. • Deciding she is lost, he strikes the guide, who runs away. • Aziz looks around and discovers Adela's field glasses lying broken on the ground. • Aziz then looks down the hill and sees Adela speaking to another young Englishwoman, Miss Derek, who has arrived with Fielding in a car. • Aziz runs down the hill and greets Fielding, but Miss Derek and Adela drive off without explanation. Fielding, Mrs. Moore, and Aziz return to Chandrapore on the train.
Aziz's arrest • At the train station, Aziz is arrested and charged with sexually assaulting • (trying to rape) Adela in a cave. • Trial on Aziz- racial tensions between the British and the Indians. • Adela says that Aziz followed her into the cave and tried to grab her, and that she fended him off by swinging her field glasses at him. • The only evidence the British have is the field glasses in the possession of Aziz. • Despite this, the British colonists believe that Aziz is guilty. • Fielding proclaims his belief in Aziz's innocence. • Fielding is condemned as a blood-traitorby the British. • But the Indians, who consider the assault allegation a fraud, welcome him.
Mrs. Moore mystery • During the weeks before the trial, Mrs. Moore is apathetic and irritable. • Although she professes her belief in Aziz's innocence, she does nothing to help him. • Ronny, alarmed by his mother's assertion that Aziz is innocent, arranges for her return by ship to England before she can influence the trial. • Mrs. Moore dies (or killed by her own son Ronny ?) during the voyage. Her absence from India becomes a major issue at the trial, where Aziz's legal defenders assert that her opinion would have proven Aziz’s innocence.
Trial scene • Adela becomes confused as to Aziz's guilt. • At the trial, she is asked whether Aziz sexually assaulted her. • Adela had, while in the cave, received a shock similar to Mrs. Moore's. • The echo had disconcerted her so much that she became unhinged. At the time, Adela mistakenly interpreted her shock as an assault by Aziz. • She admits that she was mistaken, and the case is dismissed. • Aziz is released. But he is angry with Ms. Adela as she almost ruined his life with a fake charge.
The Result.. • Ronny Heaslop breaks off his engagement to Adela and she stays at Fielding's house until her passage on a boat to England is arranged. • After explaining to Fielding that the echo was the cause of the whole business, she departs India, never to return. • Aziz is angry that Fielding befriended Adela after she nearly ruined his life. • Fielding convinces Aziz not to lodge a court suit of defaming against Adela. • The men's friendship suffers, and Fielding departs for England. Aziz believes that he is leaving to marry Adela for her money. • Bitter at his friend's perceived betrayal, he vows never again to befriend a white person. Aziz moves to the Hindu-ruled state of Mau and begins a new life.
At Mau..(Ending) • Two years later, Fielding returns to India. • His wife is Stella, Mrs. Moore's daughter from a second marriage. • Aziz, now the Raja's chief physician, comes to respect and love Fielding again. • However, he does not give up his dream of a free and united India. • In the novel's last sentences, he explains that he and Fielding cannot be friends until India is free of the British Raj.
