Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines the culinary conceit in George Francklin Atkinson's illustrated book Curry and Rice. Published immediately following the Indian Revolt of 1857, Curry and Rice is remarkable for its complete silence on this major anticolonial challenge to British rule in India. I examine the role that food plays in creating, maintaining, and ultimately imploding this suggestive silence. While previous scholarship on this book has read its culinary discourse as complicit in its narrative amnesia about the Revolt, I argue that food speaks the agency that it is supposed to silence. In the colonial setting, the culinary cannot be read apart from the corporeal: food always figures bodies that prepare, present, and eat it. Thus, whereas Atkinson uses an extended food conceit to discursively overwrite rebel agency in this post-1857 satire, I show through a careful reading of such culinary discourse how food subverts and usurps narrative containment and narratorial intention by signifying anticolonial menace, Indian agency, and narrative slippages.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".