ISSN: 2582-7065 (Online) SAJSSH, VOL 4, ISSUE 4, PP. 113-125 113 DOI: 10.48165/sajssh.2023.4406 Reinterpreting Imperial-Oriental and Liberal Issues in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India: A Marxist Perspective Fares Mohammed S. Ali 1 & Anand Ubale 2 1 Department of English, Aden University, Yemen. 2 Department of English, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad- India. Corresponding Author: Fares Mohammed S. Ali, E-mail: almsudi00719@gmail.com ABSTRACT The current research article highlighted the imperial-oriental and liberal issues included in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India that was considered as one of the colonial discourses. Forster criticizes properly the British imperialism according to the book incidents. To explore the above issues critically, the researcher focused on the concept of hegemony as one of the major arguments of the Marxist approach. This concept was first articulated by the prominent Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci who divided it into two forms namely coercive hegemony and the consent one. In this regard, it is seen that the imperial values were represented by coercive hegemony, while the oriental discussions were represented the consent hegemony. Based on the book events, the British seen themselves as superior while the native Indians are inferior, and this classification comes under the consent hegemony according to the Gramsci’s allegations. This research work aimed to reinterpret the imperial-oriental and liberal issues embodied in Forster’s book, A Passage to India in the light of the Marxist perspective. Keywords: Imperialism, orientalism, colonialism, hegemony, liberalism, etc. Received: 15 th June 2023 Accepted: 17 th July 2023 Published: 4 th August 2023