Examining the Consequences and Influence of Post-Colonialism in Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Glass Palace (2000) by Amitav Ghosh is a chronicled novel that shows how Burma was colonised and affected the rich and the poor. Post-colonial literature is a group of works of art that deal with the problems and effects of Europe's colonisation of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Beginning with the British attack on Burma in 1885 and ending with the Second World War, Ghosh covers a vast amount of South Asian history and imperialism. This paper focuses on studying some historical events that have been kept quiet and telling their stories along with those of ordinary people and repressed subalterns. Raj Kumar, the novel's main character, tells the powerful stories of exile and displacement of people who were split up after a radical event and now live in different parts of Asia. The natives are shown as victims instead of enemies of the colonisers. Further, the article tells the ugly truth about colonialism and its effects through the eyes of three generations living in the three regions of the British Empire that were all connected: Burma, Malaya, and India.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".