As an Indian, born and brought up in India, this book appearedextremely shallow to me...the Indian characters are unbelievable and their descriptions highly biased..the portrayal of Hindus especially is highly ludicrous...also the story seems to indicate the superiorty of the British people throughout; even though Forster shows the British people in a poor light, he saves the day by making a martyr of Mrs Moore and Miss Questad...Forster probably never went to India, nor did he really know anyIndians, his novel is India seen through the eyes of a BritishColonialist who "thought" he knew everything about India and Indians. I am sorry for the people who think that this novel isa true portrayal of anything that is remotely Indian.