One modernist author who examined racism and oppression through a story of friendship between an Englishman and an Indian was

One modernist author who examined racism and oppression through a story of friendship between an Englishman and an Indian was E. M. Foster, in his most famous work, A Passage to India. The whole novel itself is about whether it will ever be possible for an Indian and an Englishman to become friends, given the circumstances in India after the British colonization. Written in 1924, the novel explores this theme, as well as many other subjects such as oppression and racism.