He was deeply religious.

BRITISH CHARACTERS

Mrs Moore : was an old woman who had just arrived in Chandrepore from Britain. She had come to India to see her son, Ronny who was the city magistrate.

Adela: was Ronny's fiancée, they were engaged. She had gone to Chandrepore to meet Ronny and she wanted to know "real India".

Ronny: was Mrs Moore's son

Riassunto

Two english women, the young Miss Adela and Mrs. Moore go to India. Adela is engaged to Mrs. Moore's son, Ronny, a British magistrate in the indian city of Chandrapore. Adela and Mrs. Moore hope to see the real India during their visit, rather than cultural istitutions imported by the British.

At the same time, Aziz, a young muslim doctor in India.

One night, Mrs Moore and Aziz meet each other, by chance, in a local mosque, and the two become friends. Aziz is surprised that an english person would treat him like a friend.

Mr. Turton, the man who governs Chandrapore, organises a party so that Adela and Mrs Moore have the opportunity to meet some of the more wealthy Indians in the city. At the party, Adela meets Cyril Fielding, the principale of the governement college in Chandrapore. Fielding, impressed by Adela's kindness to the Indians, invited her and Mrs Moore to tea with him and the Hirdu professor Godbole. Fielding invites Aziz too.

Aziz and Fielding immediatly become friends, and the afternoon is plasant until Ronny arrives and interrupt the party. Later thet evening, Adela tells Ronny that she had decided to don't marry him. But that night, the two have a car accident together and the event makes Adela change her mind about the marriage.

Not long afterward, Aziz organises an expedition to the Marabar caves.

Fielding and Professos Godbole miss the train. Inside one of the caves Mrs. Moore doesn't feel well because they are in the enclosed space.

Aziz, Adela and a guide go on the higter caves while Mrs. Moore waits below.

Adela realizes that she doesn't live Ronny and she asks Aziz if he has more than one wife and he considers this question offensive. Aziz enters a cave and when he returned, Adela is gone.

Aziz Finds Adela's broken glasses and later he finds Fielding waiting for him. Aziz learns that Adela has taken a car back to Chandrapore. Once back in Chandrapore, Aziz was arrested because Adela accused him of raping her in the caves.

Fielding belives in Aziz and he joins the Indians in Aziz's defense.

In the weeks before the trial, the racial tensions between the Indians and the English grow. Ronny is fed up with Mrs.Moore's lack of support for Adela and he decides that Mrs.Moore will return to England.

Mrs. Moore dies during the voyage but before she realizes that isn't "real India", but a different Indias.

At Aziz's trial, Adela says that she has made a mistake: Aziz isn't the person or thing that attacked her in the cave. Aziz is set free, and Fielding takes Adela to the government College, where she spends the next weeks.

Fielding begins to respect Adela, recognizing her bravery in pronuncing Aziz innicent. Ronny breaks off his engagement to Adela and she returns to England.

Aziz, however, is angry that Fielding would help Adela after she nearly ruined. Aziz's life, and friendship, between the two men suffers as a consequence.

Then Fielding goes to England for a visit. Aziz decides to move to a place where he will haven't to encounter the English anymore.

Two years later, Aziz has become the chief doctor to the Rajah of Mau, a Hindu region of Chanrapore. He has heard thet Fielding married Adela after returning to England.

Aziz now hates all English people. One day, walking through an old temple with his three children, he encounters Fielding and his brother- in- law. Aziz is surprised to learn that the brother- in- law's names is Ralph Moore, he finds out that Fielding didn't marry Adela, but Stella Moore, Mrs. Moore's daughter from her second marriage. After he accidentally runs his boat into Fielding's, they become friends again. The two men go for a final ride together before Fielding leaves, during which Aziz tells Fielding that once the English are out of India, they will be able to be friends. Fielding asks why they can not be friends now; but the sky and the earth seem to say " No, not yet...No, not there."