殖民主义是根源——析《印度之行》

Colonialism is the Root——Analysis of A Passage to India

在一些人看来,《印度之行》中的英国殖民者和印度人民之间存在着一条几乎无法逾越的鸿沟,这是由于英国人缺乏同情心,缺乏想象力和印度人的善意、真诚而缺乏实际能力的精神状态之间的矛盾所造成的。本文不赞同这一观点。笔者认为:两者之间的矛盾根源于英国的殖民主义和由此产生的种族歧视。

In some readers' view,the insurmountable gap between the British colonialists and the Indian people in A Passage to India results from the contradiction between the Britishers who lack sympathy and imagination and the Indians who are with sincerity and kind-heartedness but lack practical spiritual abilities. This paper disapproves of this view. According to this author, the contradiction mentioned above is rooted in British colonialism that naturally arouses the racial discrimination.