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... story of King Vikramaditya and treats the mythical tale as a narrative in its own right. In his story, Schridaman, the frail Brahmin, falls in love with Sita, the lovely daughter of Sumantra. Nanda, a cowherd and close friend of Schridaman, arranges his marriage to Sita. Distinct caste and racial...

... of postcolonial, post-partition In- dia. In the film, Sita (Nadita Das) is an unfulfilled bride in an arranged marriage with Jatin, the owner of a video rental store in Delhi. Living in the same house are Jatin’s mother, Bhiji, his older, celibate brother Ashok, Ashok’s wife, Radha (Shabana Azmi...

... of information, and each section of the novel is introduced with an image of the edge of a newspaper noting the date. Since the novel is also partially an attempt to reenact the Ramayana through the evocation of Sita and what happens to women who disobey and exceed the boundaries set by men, as in the Lakshman...

... deer that tricked Rama and Sita reappears as a multi- hued doe-woman in the story of king Dangvai (1493) and in Qutban’s Mirigāvatī (The Magic Doe, 1545) (see Orsini, Forthcoming; and Behl). In his most famous tale, Malik Muhammad Jayasi combined the quest narrative of earlier Sufi romances...

... to him the notebook in which she wrote, at eighteen, the secret account of her love for Sita, whose arranged marriage ended their relationship. Hers is another failed cross- racial encounter, but one that inspires the imaginative recreation of a world in which Sita might have been the daughter...

...—praises Africa and Asia (India) and gives considerable attention to the borderlands country of the Amazon women, “partim in Asia, partim sita in Europa” (“situated partly in Asia, partly in Europe,” Bk. 15, ch. 12), nevertheless also repeats the absolutist and separatist three-continents claim, cit...