Demonisation involves ascribing extremely hostile images to a person or a group. It goes further than discrimination because the demonisers expressly want to make scapegoats of the group they are demonising. Wishing to exclude the ‘subaltern’ from high social positions, the demonisers design a political agenda seeking to exclude their targets from society. In A Passage to India, the Anglo-Indians of Chandrapore, who are the rulers of the region, instigate a social persecution of the Indians after Aziz is charged with the assault of Adela Quested. Forster acquaints the reader with different types of English characters in A Passage to India. The main English characters include the bureaucratic Anglo-Indians, Miss Quested and Mrs Moore who are the ‘unspoilt’ newcomers, and Cyril Fielding, an open-minded English teacher in India. In the novel, the Anglo-Indians want to form a separate group and during the trial they try to victimise their status while, in fact, they are the demonisers. In A Passage to India, Forster attacks bigoted perspectives on natives, but he also seems sceptical about the question whether friendship between invader and colonised is at all possible. The narrator of A Passage to India justifiably blames the Anglo-Indians for the troublesome relations between Indians and the English, and is regularly anti-colonial. The way in which the Anglo-Indians and their wives are satirised reveals Forster’s opinion about the incompetence of the Anglo-Indians to