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Jeeta is Anwar's wife. She was a princess in India who joined Anwar in London after their lavish wedding. Jeeta helps Anwar with the grocery store and cooks Karim all his favorite foods when he comes to visit. After Anwar's hunger strike, Jeeta's relationship to her husband changes. Though she continues to feed and care for Anwar, she stops cooking his favorite foods and becomes cruel and distant. She even remodels the store without telling Anwar. Karim believes that Jamila's feminist theory introduced Jeeta to the fact that she could enjoy power in her marriage.
Princess Jeeta Quotes in The Buddha of Suburbia
The The Buddha of Suburbia quotes below are all either spoken by Princess Jeeta or refer to Princess Jeeta. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1, Chapter 4
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The lives of Anwar and Jeeta and Jamila were pervaded by fear of violence...Jeeta kept buckets of water around her bed in case the shop was firebombed in the night. Many of Jamila's attitudes were inspired by the possibility that a white group might kill one of us one day.
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Part 2, Chapter 11
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But as the days passed I watched Jeeta's progress. She certainly didn't want to go home. It was as if Jamila had educated her in possibility, the child being an example to the parent.
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Princess Jeeta Quotes in The Buddha of Suburbia
The The Buddha of Suburbia quotes below are all either spoken by Princess Jeeta or refer to Princess Jeeta. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 1, Chapter 4
Quotes
The lives of Anwar and Jeeta and Jamila were pervaded by fear of violence...Jeeta kept buckets of water around her bed in case the shop was firebombed in the night. Many of Jamila's attitudes were inspired by the possibility that a white group might kill one of us one day.
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Part 2, Chapter 11
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But as the days passed I watched Jeeta's progress. She certainly didn't want to go home. It was as if Jamila had educated her in possibility, the child being an example to the parent.
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