A Study of Postcolonial Ecologies and Energy Colonialism in Amish Tripathi’s Sita: Warrior of Mithila

Abstract

Amish Tripathi’s novel Sita: Warrior of Mithila reinvigorates the legend of Sita through a new narrative style that takes an ecological, ethical, and postcolonial perspective. This paper discusses how Tripathi depicts Sita as a decolonial resistance and an environmental harmony. Through the prism of postcolonial ecocriticism, energy humanities, and ecofeminism, the paper examines modernity, energy colonialism, and patriarchal power. As revealed in the analysis, Sita's leadership in Mithila is a locally based form of sustainable leadership grounded in energy ethics and governance. The study situates Tripathi's work in a wider ecocritical sense, in which he attempts to bring power and responsibility into balance through his mythmaking of today.