Clash of Ideological Loyalties in Forster's A Passage to India

Ideology is a system of belief. It is one variant form of those comprehensive patterns of cognitive and moral beliefs about man society and the universe in relation to man and society which flourish in human societies. Ideologies are characterized by a high degree of explicitness of formulation over a very wide range of the objects with which they deal; for their adherents there is an authoritative and explicit promulgation. As compared with other patterns of beliefs ideologies are relatively highly systematized or integrated around one or a few pre-eminent values such as salvation equality or ethnic purity.