Aziz ride together through the Indian landscape, and, as they embrace, Fielding asks whether it is possible, despite the colonial relationship between England and India, for the two men to be friends: “Why can’t we be friends now? It’s what I want. At the end of the novel, the Englishman Fielding and the Indian Dr. Here, the hoped-for destruction of the barriers of prejudice is deferred. Forster wrote, A Passage to India ( 1924), ends with the question of whether two men can overcome social divisions, not of class (as in Maurice) but of race.
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