Bibliographic record
Abstract
Between the premiere of A Doll’s House (Copenhagen 1879) and the home/world binary of twenty-first-century middle-class India, there has only been doubtful evolution in a women’s position that is pitted between “cultural” tropes of conjugal commodification and individual aspirations for that elusive voice of their own. When social systems, legal institutions and economic indices are all replete with evidence to this effect; the source text still resonates with meaning across space and time. This chapter takes up three such stage representations—Abanti Chakrabarti’s Putuler Chithi (The Doll’s Letter 2005), Basab Pradhan’s A Doll’s House (2016), and Biplab Bandopadhyay’s Khelaghar (Playpen 2019) to contextualise questions on the Indian woman’s domestic/social agency, and her consequent emotive responses in the new millennium. While the first is a gynocritical mono-act that bridges semiotics of Ibsen and Tagore, the third prioritises urgency of gender equality in a corporatised neo-colonial social context, wherein theatre is perceived as a tool of sensitisation. Between them, the second, a Canadian diasporic production, picks upon womanhood as trammeled between liminal identities of an affluent “modern” woman inhabiting a questionable socio-economic space and of a perfect Indian housewife upholding cultural mores of the imagined homeland. Cumulatively, the chapter will interrogate the “liberalised” lives of urban Indian middle-class women by deconstructing their negotiations with the decolonised milieu.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
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.
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".