| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-18页 |
| ·E. M. Forster and A Passage to India | 第9-13页 |
| ·The Critical Reception of A passage to India | 第13-16页 |
| ·The layout of This Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Postcolonial Theory and “the Other” | 第18-24页 |
| ·Historical Context of Postcolonial Theory | 第18-19页 |
| ·Postcolonial Theory: the Main Concepts | 第19-21页 |
| ·“The other”and India | 第21-24页 |
| Chapter Three “The Other”in A Passage to India | 第24-39页 |
| ·The Hinduism as “the other” | 第24-28页 |
| ·Fielding’s Tea Party | 第24-25页 |
| ·Mrs. Moore’s mental crisis | 第25-27页 |
| ·Marabar caves | 第27-28页 |
| ·India as the stereotype | 第28-31页 |
| ·Stereotypical writing of Chandrapore and Marabar caves | 第29-30页 |
| ·Professor Godbole as a representative of the Indians | 第30-31页 |
| ·Indian as the “feminine” | 第31-35页 |
| ·Indian women | 第31-33页 |
| ·Aziz’s feminine role in Marabar caves and trial | 第33-34页 |
| ·Aziz’s subordinate role to Fielding | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Orientals in contrast to the Englishmen | 第35-39页 |
| Chapter Four Improbability of “Only Connect” | 第39-48页 |
| ·Political background of A Passage to India | 第40-41页 |
| ·Improbability of “only connect”: an insuperable cultural barrier | 第41-44页 |
| ·The caves and the trial | 第41-43页 |
| ·The Hindu festival and the boat collision | 第43-44页 |
| ·Improbability of “only connect”: unbridgeable interpersonal relations | 第44-48页 |
| ·Relations between Aziz and Mrs. Moore | 第44-45页 |
| ·Relations between Aziz and Fielding | 第45-48页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第48-51页 |
| Notes | 第51-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-56页 |
