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... the film, burning effigies of the director and halting screenings. 2 Firetells the story ofRadha and Sita, two sisters-in-law who fall in love while living in a middle-class, Hindu joint family in New Delhi. When the movie opens, Sita has just married Jatin and moved into the Kapur family's household, only...

.... The modern Indian nationalist-some would argue Hindu chauvinist-party, the BJP, highlights the role of Sita, the dutiful wife of Ram, who must be one of the most wronged women in world civilization. Self-sacrificing, doting, impeccably chaste, and prone to tragedy, she is the model wife. However...

...." CurricularCrossings: Women'SstudiesandAreaStudiesh. ttpwww3.amherst.edu/-mrhunt /womencrossing/rege.html. Spyra, Ania. 2006. "Is Cosmopolitanism Not for Women?: Migration in Qurrantulain Hyder's Sita Betrayedand Amitav Ghosh's TheShadowLines." FrontierAs:Journaol fWomen'Sstudies27 (2): 1-26. Walters, Wendy. 2005...

... in India." In Women, States,andNationalism:A Homein theNation, edited by Sita Ranchod-Nilsson and Mary Ann Tetreault. London: Routledge. Cohen, Stephen Philip. 2004. TheIdeaof Pakistan. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press. Engineer, Asghar Ali. 1993."Bombay Riots." PUCLBulletin...

...-Marie, she decides to recall stories from the Ramayana . And her daughter, Etiennise, not as interested in the ideal Rama and Sita, introduces the shrewd Satyavati by borrowing her name. Both instances reveal the central role servant-class Indian women play in the creolization of and subversive...

..., a process which once again conflates the preservation ofnationness with the protection of women" (2001, 157). Fernandes is alluding to how the purity of the Indian nation has historically been identified with the purity of the Hindu woman through the value attributed to Sita, the pure and devoted wife...

... figures as the birthplace ofRama's wife Sita (also called Janaki) in the Hindu epic, Ramayana,and is one of the mythologized cultural, spiritual, and political centers of the ancient kingdom of Mithila. The land in this region is only about one hundred meters above sea level and is contiguous...