India in Girmitya Memory: A Literary Reflection on the Capildeo Family
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Abstract
Abstract Diaspora” (from the Greek word for “scattering”) refers to the dispersion of people from their homeland. Diaspora literature are works that are written by authors who live outside their native land. The Indian Diaspora is one of the largest Diasporas in the world. Indians have a long history of emigration to other parts of the world. The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude. About two million Indians were transported to labour in European colonies, as a substitute for slave labour. The system expanded after abolition of the Slavery in the early ninteenth century, British Empire in 1833, in the French colonies in 1848, and in the Dutch Empire in 1863. Indian indentureship lasted till the 1920s. This resulted in the development of a large Indian diaspora in the Caribbean, Natal, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Myanmar, to Fiji, as well as the growth of Indo-Caribbean, Indo-African, Indo-Fijian, Indo-Malaysian, and Indo-Singaporean populations. The term “girmitya" is a malapropism of an English word “agreement, referring to the Agreement of the British Government with the Indian. Indo-Caribbeans or Indian-Caribbeans, are people of Indian descent who live in the Caribbean. They are mostly descendants of the original Jahaji Indian indentured workers. Indo-Caribbeans have migrated to the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom and Ireland. The Capildeo family is an Indo-Trinidadian family, 2001 Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul and mathematician and politician Rudranath Capildeo are most notable members of this family. Pundit Capildeo, travelled to Trinidad as an indentured labourer in 1894 from his village in Uttar Pradesh. This paper concerns with the study of Capildeo family in terms of their representation of India in Literature.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".