Women, War, and the Birth of Bangladesh
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Abstract
My thesis explores the impact of women revolutionaries during the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh: it investigates the reasons that thrust Bengali women into political activism: Why did they take up arms, or provide protection to the Bengali revolutionaries in their struggle against the Pakistani military junta?The role of women freedom fighters in the history of Bangladesh's liberation is an understudied theme compared to the role of their male compatriots.This dissertation seeks to restore agency to women in the nation's fight for freedom.Methodologically, my research interrogates two major components of primary sources: archival documents on the 1971 liberation war, and interviews of contemporaneous observers and/or their descendants.I complement this through a study of 1971 war-related printed Bengali novels, local histories, periodicals, and diaries.I tapped into published Bangladesh government data as secondary sources, as well as new documentaries, videos, and photographs.Due to this project's aim of understanding the women freedom fighters' own perspectives and truths, I applied principles of emergent design in data collection and analysis.My data analysis followed a combination of inductive content analysis and narrative analysis.The inductive approach condenses raw textual data into brief summaries, to establish clear links between the research objectives and the summary findings derived from the raw data, and to develop a framework of the underlying structure of experiences that are evident in the raw data.The narrative analysis focuses on my interpretation of stories or experiences shared by interviewees within the social context of the research project.P a g e | 6 Rsum Ma thse explore l'impact des femmes rvolutionnaires pendant la guerre de libration du Bangladesh en 1971 : elle examine les raisons qui ont pouss les femmes Bengalis poursuivre l'activisme politique : pourquoi ont-elles pris les armes, ou ont fourni une protection aux rvolutionnaires Bengalis dans leur lutte contre la junte militaire pakistanaise ?Le rle des femmes rvolutionnaires de la libert dans l'histoire de la libration du Bangladesh est un thme peu tudi par rapport au rle de leurs compatriotes masculins.Cette thse vise redonner aux femmes le pouvoir d'agir dans la lutte nationale pour la libert.Mthodologiquement, ma recherche interroge deux composantes majeures des sources primaires: des documents d'archives sur la guerre de libration de 1971, et des entretiens d'observateurs contemporains et/ou de leurs descendants.Je complte cela par une tude de romans Bengalis imprims lis la guerre de 1971, de priodiques d'histoires locales et de journaux intimes.J'ai aussi recherch dans les donnes publies par le gouvernement du Bangladesh en tant que sources secondaires, ainsi que dans de nouveaux documentaires, vidos et photographies.L'objectif de ce project c'est comprendre les propres perspectives et vrits des femmes combattantes pour la libert, afin de cela j'ai appliqu les principes de la conception mergente dans la collecte et l'analyse des donnes.Mon analyse de donnes a suivi une combinaison d'analyse de contenu inductive et d'analyse narrative.L'approche inductive condense les donnes textuelles brutes en brefs rsums, pour tablir des liens clairs entre les objectifs de la recherche et les rsultats sommaires drivs des donnes brutes, pendant aussi dveloppant un cadre de la structure sous-jacente des expriences qui sont videntes dans les donnes brutes.L'analyse narrative se concentre sur mon interprtation des histoires ou des expriences partages par les personnes interroges dans le contexte social du projet de recherche.P a g e | 7 P a g e | 8 AcknowledgementMy first and greatest debt is to my supervisor, Professor Subho Basu.I am deeply
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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 | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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".