Ethnic conflict and the Fate of Parsis in India: a Study of Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Firozshah Bag
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rohinton Mistry is an Indian born Parsi writer settled in Canada. He writes about the ethnic conflict that his community faces from the right wing political parties in Bombay like the Shiv Sena. His short story collection titled Tales from Firozshah Bag describes the Bombay city of the 1960s and 70s from a Parsi perspective detailing the present condition of the Parsis and their loss of social, economic and political significance. The short stories in the collection also present the issue of ethnic conflict that the community had to face from the neighbouring communities that call themselves ‘sons of the soil’. This article aims to analyse the issue of ethnic conflict faced by the Parsi community in the post-independence period with reference to Mistry’s first collection of short stories titled Tales from Firozshah Bag. KeywordsEthnic Conflict, Rohinton Mistry, Parsi Literature, Tales from Firozshah Bag.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.013 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.003 |
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.
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