Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Vallabha Sampradāya or Pusti Mārga Hindu devotional community was founded in the sixteenth century by the Vaisnavite philosopher, Vallabha. His successors, known as mahārājas, continued to spread the teachings of the Pusti Mārga and enjoyed much success in Rajasthan and Gujarat. Political and economic patronage by elites of Western India soon transformed these mahārājas into wealthy landlords whose affluent lifestyles would cause much controversy in the nineteenth century. This article uses unpublished documents found in the National Archives of India to detail one of these controversies, revolving around struggles between the Pusti Mārga, the royal house of Mevād., and British authorities for control of the wealth associated with Nāthdvārā, the central focus of Pusti Mārga pilgrimage in Rajasthan. The protracted struggle for the control of Nāthdvārā indicates how Hindu spiritual leaders were far from passive observers of the world who gave themselves purely to the cultivation of spiritual pursuits. On the contrary, this particular controversy is a striking example of how the active engagement of religious leaders in local and regional politics could profoundly affect the existing religious and social structures of their time.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".