E.M. FORSTER: AS BIOGRAPHER

The present study is an attempt—a modest attempt indeed—to offer a critical estimate of E.M. Forster as Biographer. It is true that some Forster scholars regard The Hill Of Devi (1953) too as a biographical exercise, but the fact of the matter is that it is not a regular kind of biography, not a biography of Sir Tuko Ji Rao III, Maharaja of Dewas State Senior, with whom the author worked as his Private Secretary for six months from April to October 1921.