In A Passage To India E.M.Forster describes the caves in which I interpret as a description of the situation Chandrapore is facing. “Yet even they are altering, As Himalayan India rose, this India, the primal, has been depressed, and is slowly re-entering the curve of the earth….Mean while the Ganges encroaches on the them with something of the sea’s action. They are sinking beneath the newer lands. Their main mass is untouched, but at the edge their outposts have been cut off and stand knee-deep, throat-deep, in the advancing soil. There is something unspeakable in these outposts…they rise abruptly, insanely, without the proportion that is kept by the hills elsewhere, they bear no relation to anything dreamt or seen…Hinduism has scratched and plastered a few rocks, but the shrines are unfrequented, as if pilgrims, who generally seek the extraordinary, had here found too much of it…the caves are readily described." Chandrapore relationship of the Indians to the Englishmen is still pitiful.Forster mentions above that India has been depressed due to the activities that have been going on in Chandrapore because of the Indians. The Englimen believe the Indians to to be disrespectful and noncooperative. The indians think the English are intrusive and impertinent. Its ironic how the ganges caves possibly represent the Indian city of Chadrapore. Forster mentions that the land is sinking because the English are attemting to come in the indian territories to bring order to the natives. His choice of words such as "rise abruptly, insanely, without the proportion" draws a depiction of unbalance within chandrapore. I predict that later on in the story the Indians will solve their "beef" issues with the English, and they will reach proportion on a "hill" that is locted elsewhere.

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