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Excerpt: Madras High Court E.M. Forster And Anr. vs A.N. Parasuram on 9 January, 1964 Equivalent citations: AIR 1964 Mad 331 Author: Anantanarayanan Bench: Anantanarayan, Ramamurti JUDGMENT Anantanarayanan, J. 1. In 1924, Mr. E. M. Forster, the English Novelist, published "A Passage to India", a work of fiction which was also a penetrating study of …