The daughter of a Bombay Parsi merchant, she was married against her will to the Hindu ruler of Bundelkhand, an Indian princely state.
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The popular Spanish animated adaptation, Around the World with Willy Fog compromises on this detail by having Fog invite Aouda, here named Princess Romy, to change out of the dark-coloured funeral sari she was forced to wear for her sati and into a lighter-coloured one which she wears for remainder of the voyage.
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Aouda was played by Shirley MacLaine in the 1956 film Around the World in Eighty Days and by Julia Nickson in the 1989 three-part TV mini-series Around the World in Eighty Days.
Kariat Ben Aouda is a small town and rural commune in Kénitra Province of the Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen region of Morocco.