What did happen to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalizing question provides the intense drama at the centre of Forster`s last and greatest novel, of racial tension in colonial India. After a mysterious incident during their visit to the Marabar Caves, the charming Dr Aziz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naïve young Englishwoman. As he is brought to trial the fragile structure of Anglo-Indian relations collapses and the racism inherent in colonialism is exposed - a theme which still has powerful, dangerous realities today. Yet the novel is also, in Forster`s words, `about something wider than politics ... about the universe as embodied in the Indian earth and the Indian sky`.