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Abstract
distinctive Ram statue was used in Hyderabad, Telangana, in the annual shobha yatra (grace procession) between 2012 and 2018 for the occasion of Ram Navami, the festival of Ram's birthday.1 This festival occurs each year in the larger program of Spring Navratri.Yatra translates from Hindi as "procession," and is used to refer to both religious and political variants, while shobha commonly translates as "grace."The two terms together highlight the religious aspects of the procession and its place in the ritual calendar.The first public shobha yatra in Hyderabad occurred in 2010.Previously, it was a more relaxed affair that was celebrated in private.This change occurred in response to the Milad-un-Nabi celebrations of the Hyderabadi Muslim community becoming public for the first time in 2010, just a few weeks before that year's Ram Navami. 2 The last yatra I have information about is 2018.Personal and academic factors made it impractical to continue to follow the Hyderabadi yatra after this date.However, the impact of pandemic restrictions on the yatra would be fascinating to discuss.A cursory search suggests that there were some changes made to Ram's face in post-pandemic 1. Robin Rinehart, Contemporary Hinduism: Ritual, Culture, and Practice (Santa Barbara, Cali: ABC-CLIO, 2004), 139. 2. Z. Fareen Parvez, "Celebrating the Prophet: Religious Nationalism and the Politics of Milad-un-Nabi Festivals in India," Nations & Nationalism 20, no. 2 (2014): 218-238; see 218-219. AInterpreting the Muscular Ram v 113 celebrations.3 The uncertainties, however, caution against (most) speculative analysis.This topic is consequently beyond my capacity to address.This discussion will therefore be limited to the prepandemic yatras of the 2010s.This article will argue that this unique Ram statue from Hyderabad communicates both political and devotional messages through its body.These messages can be further delineated according to the immediate audience: local, national, and international.This communication hinges upon people seeing Ram, and Ram communicating with them in return.This deeply visual communication extends the field of our inquiry to encompass physical, digital, and international interactions with the god.This expansive field illustrates the simultaneity of political, religious, and social dimensions.This line of inquiry leads to the preliminary conclusion that this Ram statue acts as a floating signifier for Indian culture.4 The particular discursive contexts interpret the content of "Indian culture" in distinctive ways.As Ram shifts between the different contexts, his specific meanings are rewritten according to the idiosyncrasies of the particular context.Yet each context maintains the connection between the signifier -Ram -and the signified, i.e., traditions in the subcontinent.The varied meanings of 3. Reddees, "View of Hindu God Rama Idol with Bow and Arrows in a Temple," Deposit Photos, April 1st, 2020, https://depositphotos.com/359549546/stockphoto-view-hindu-god-rama-idol.html;"Happy Ram Navami 2021: Wishes, Messages, Quotes, Images, Greetings, Facebook & WhatsApp status,"
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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