Brian Diamond asked, "Is there any tradition of contrasting the two [i.e., Kipling
and E.M. Forster] as novelists?"
Yes, there is, in that KIM and A PASSAGE TO INDIA were considered by many yo be
the two classic English-language novels of India -- at least until Vikram Seth
wrote A SUITABLE BOY. Back in the 1960s it was a commonplace (at least in the
USA) to think of those two writers when contemplating the Western literary response
to India.
Fred Lerner
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