6th August
In August 1921, he was thinking about Indian religion. In a letter to Cambridge don Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, he became quite impatient with Hindu customs. 'This month’, he wrote, 'we celebrate the birthday of Lord Krishna and have already chosen for him 8 new sets of clothes and given orders for his bed and for his mosquito curtains’. His objection is not just based in a lack of sympathy for another culture. He noted that alongside this great expense, they were also closing 'the one High School in the state’. He intended to go to the celebrations, but feared that insects, or perhaps worn-out socks (no boots allowed), would spoil them for him. (Source: Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, ed. Mary Lago and P.N. Furbank (London: Collins, 1983-1985), letter of 6 August 1921)
