Reframing Indigeneity: Ayurveda, Independence and the Health of the Future
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Abstract
In this chapter, we will examine the evolving politicization of Ayurveda as the era of colonial rule came to an end and Indian bureaucrats and citizens shifted from imagining postcoloniality to defining independence. The Second World War wrought the mass disavowal of the possibilities for empire in South Asia, where cooperative and capitulative politics had shifted against a future in Empire, and in which nationalist politics had ceased to make possible the functional carrying out of large-scale imperial policy. The most prominent political movement throughout the war had been, of course, the Gandhian Quit India movement, which began in August 1942 as a response to Britain’s unilateral decision to bring India into the war, and became the nationalist articulation of anti-colonial sentiment and action. Over the course of its three years, over one hundred thousand people were imprisoned, at times shutting down realms of governance crucial to the manoeuvrings of Empire. Most importantly, the positions that Gandhi and the Congress were able to take against Empire led to swifter and more absolute forms of decolonization.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".