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Indian feminism started with the abolition of Sati and has come a long way past several hurdles. Indian Feminism is unique in India and began from the time of Savitribai Phule and Pandita Ramabai fighting for the abolishing the custom of child marriage and‘disfiguring’ of widows; introducing the marriage of upper caste Hindu widows, promoting women’s education, obtaining legal rights for women to own property, and requiring the law to acknowledge women’s status by granting them basic rights in matters such as adoption. There has been a lot of change in the status of women, but patriarchy still exists in open and hidden ways and the ramification of these age old traditions need to change in the society. The feminist views of many Indian women writers have changed and their works reveal the impact of the diasporic, post colonial, artistic and economic dimensions. This paper examines Sita-Warrior of Mithila as an iconic landmark in establishing the dominant role played by women since ages, etched in mythological works of India.