High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Time magazine included the novel in its "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". The novel is based on Forster`s experiences in India. E.M.Forster borrowed the book`s title from Walt Whitman`s poem Leaves of Grass.