The balance of antipathy and sympathy in A Passage to India.

This relates to the "muddle" or mess that was British India. The British in India served as a personification of this. Two diverse cultures not co-existing in a country oppressed by British culture. Certainly, there was evidence of sympathy, even empathy.

The friendship between Dr. Aziz and Fielding is a mutual bond of respect and admiration suggesting that the English and Indian people could share a similar relationship if they shared similar bonds. Inevitably the friendship will fail because of Britain is in India by force. After the trial, the friendship dissolves and is pulled further apart by the clash of their cultures. At the end of the novel, Dr. Aziz and Fielding are tentatively testing these bonds again.