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Record W3157509601 · doi:10.24908/iqurcp.7509

A Review of Gandhi, Father of a Nation or a Mahatma?

2017· review· en· W3157509601 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Shezan Muhammedi

Bibliographic record

VenueInquiry Queen s Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings · 2017
Typereview
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicIndian History and Philosophy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLegendMysticismNationalismReligious studiesPoliticsHinduismColonialismIndian subcontinentHistoryBuddhismSociologyGender studiesTheologyAncient historyPolitical sciencePhilosophyLawArt history

Abstract

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Mohandas Gandhi is a legend among the world’s greatest men. His many selfless acts were able to unite a nation and remove the British from colonial India. Gandhi is responsible for leading the establishment of an independent India, free from foreign intervention. However, was he mistaken to be a mystic, a sorcerer, the father of a nation or a great Mahatma? Were these attributions part of Gandhi’s true intentions or did he use the proclaimed titles as a political tool for the advancement of the nationalist campaign? Academics who specialize in modern Indian history have claimed Gandhi to be the father of a nation and a great soul or more famously known as the Mahatma. An analysis of two works, the first being Gandhi as Mahatma: Gorakhpur district, Eastern UP, 1921‐1922 by Shahid Amin and the second entitled,“Father of the Nation” in Gandhi in His Time and Ours by David Hardiman. Both works make claims as to Gandhi’s self‐righteous and father titles. However, upon further discussion it will be proven that Gandhi sought never to attain such grandiose titles; it was against his intentions. As Gandhi’s influence grew throughout the Indian subcontinent so did the titles bestowed upon him by Indians. He was wrongly associated with deities and parental roles. The accomplishments of Gandhi will forever be admired by mankind as a whole yet Gandhi did not seek to be remembered as a Mahatma or Father.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.020

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.008
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.592
GPT teacher head0.471
Teacher spread0.122 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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".

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