Reading Anandamath, Understanding Hindutva: Postcolonial Literatures and the Politics of Canonization
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Abstract
The privileging of migrant writers in the Western academy has produced definitions of postcolonial literatures as almost necessarily cosmopolitan, transplanted and multilingual. Writings of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, one of India's most politically influential novelists does not figure in syllabi of Western academic institutions. The importance of Bankim's nationalist imaginings, particularly in his novel Anandamath, in providing the epistemological methodology for the present Hindu Right's construction of a sectarian nationalist imaginary cannot be overstated. There is an urgent need to revise the postcolonial literature syllabuses and bring to critical attention those literary texts that the Hindu Right now uses to strengthen its discourses of homogenous Indian nationalism. The religio-nationalist assertion of a right-wing Hindu ideology in India makes it imperative that we evaluate the origins and tropes of nationalist fiction that are being purported today as the 'commonsense' of the nation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".