Book reviews
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Indian Traffic, Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India by Parama Roy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pp. vii + 236, £35 hb, £12.50 pb). Providence and the Raj: Imperial Mission and Missionary Imperialism by Gerald Studdert‐Kennedy (Delhi: Sage, 1998, pp. 273, £35 hb). Independence and Partitition. The Erosion of Colonial Power in India by Sucheta Mahajan (New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London: Sage Publications, 2000, Sage Series in Modern Indian History, pp.425, £29.99 hb). Democracy and Social Change in India. A Cross‐Sectional Analysis of the National Electorate by Subrata K. Mitra and V.B. Singh (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999, pp. 342, £29.99 hb). Indian Politics and the 1998 Election. Regionalism, Hindutva and State Politics edited by Ramashray Roy and Paul Wallace (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999, pp. 375, £29.99 hb). Culture and Rationality: The Politics of Social Change in Post‐colonial India by Subrata K. Mitra (New Delhi: Sage, 1999, pp. 438, hb, no price given). Quest for Power: Opposition Movements and Post‐Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh by Zoya Hasan (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 280; £19.99 hb, £6.99 pb). The Dynamics of South Asia: Regional Co‐operation and SAARC edited by Eric Gonsalves and Nancy Jetly (Sage: New Delhi, 1999, pp. 277, hb, no price given). Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy by Gustaaf Houtman (Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute for the Study of the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Study of the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Monograph Series No. 33, 1999, pp.400; free distribution [see website; address below]). Women in Caribbean History: The British Colonised Territories compiled and edited by Verene A. Shepherd (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers/Oxford: James Currey, 1999, pp.xx + 194, £12.95 pb). Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society by Hilary McD. Beckles (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers/Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers/ Oxford: James Currey, 1999, pp.xxv + 211, £15.95 pb). The Mafeking Diary of Sol T Plaatje edited by John Comaroff and Brian Willan with Solomon Molema and Andrew Reed (Cape Town: David Philip/Oxford: James Currey, centenary edition, 1999, pp.xxi + 206, £11.95 pb). Elite Transformation: From Apartheid to NeoLiberalism in South Africa by Patrick Bond (London and Pietermaritzberg: Pluto Press and University of Natal Press, 2000, pp.318, £50 hb; £15.99 pb). Zion in Africa: The Jews of Zambia by Hugh Macmillan and Frank Shapiro (London: I.B. Tauris, 1999, pp.ix + 342; no price given). Dreams of Power: The Role of the Organisation of African Unity in the Politics of Africa, 1963–1993 by Klaas van Walraven (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999, pp.xxiii + 467, £22.50 pb). The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation edited by Helen Irving (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. xxii + 474, £40 hb). The Howard Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 1996–1998 edited by Gwynneth Singleton (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000, pp.vi + 204, A$27.95 pb). Reshaping the Labour Market. Regulation, Efficiency and Equality in Australia edited by Sue Richardson (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp.xviii + 247, £40 hb; £14.95 pb). The Republican Option in Canada, Past and Present by David E. Smith (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, pp. xiv + 352, £37.50 hb). Nation and Destination: Creating Cook Islands Identity by Jeffrey Sissons (Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1999, pp.138pp, $Fiji 12 pb). Decolonisation and the British Empire, 1775–1997 by D. George Boyce (Macmillan: Basingstoke/St Martin's Press: New York, 1999, pp.352, £15.99 pb). World Development Report, 1998/99: Knowledge for Development by the World Bank (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp.viii + 251, no price given). Entering the 21st Century. World Development Report 1999/2000 by the World Bank (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.ix + 3000, no price given).
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.613 | 0.554 |
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".