'PTI' - Context

Question 1

PTI: 1919

Answer 1

• Amritsar Massacre
• English opened fire on a crowd of Indians
• 379 killed, 1,200 injured
• “Call in the troops and clear the bazaars”

Question 2

PTI: January 1960

Answer 2

• First theatrical production directed by Santa Rama Rau
• “excellent and dramatic version”
• “dramatised a novel written by a foreigner on the subject of her own country”

Question 3

PTI: 1812

Answer 3

• Maria Graham: “I have not been able to get acquainted with any native families”
• “I’ve scarcely spoken to an Indian since landing”

Question 4

PTI: 1885

Answer 4

Gandhi starts his non-violent, non-cooperation movement and was in jail as Forster was writing

Question 5

PTI: 1757

Answer 5

Robert Clive establishes India as a part of the British Empire => displays longevity of colonialism

Question 6

PTI: 1857

Answer 6

• India Mutiny: an unsuccessful uprising against the rule of the British East India Company
• Mrs Blakinston and her anxiety about the “niggers attacked”

Question 7

PTI: 1906

Answer 7

• Forster became friends and tutored an Indian, Seyed Ross Masood
• Transgresses boundary?
  CP: “It is impossible here” (India) but is possible in “Cambridge” i.e.: England

Question 8

PTI: 1927

Answer 8

• ‘Aspects of the novels’
• “Novels open out” => link to “the sky said ‘No, not there’”, possible for cross-cultural friendships to occur in other parts of the world

Question 9

PTI: 1947

Answer 9

• India gained independence

- Adela ‘voluntarily’ told the truth in the same way that the British ‘voluntarily’ granted India its independence

Question 10

PTI: 1913 + 1921

Answer 10

• Forster visited India which had “transformed politically and greatly changed socially. I also tried to describe human beings; these may not have altered so much”

Question 11

PTI: 1901

Answer 11

Death of Queen Victoria also known as the Empress of India