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Record W7019529739

Imperial responsibilities: Britain's destitute Indians and questions of (un)belonging, 1834-1914

2018· dissertation· en· W7019529739 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueeScholarship@McGill (McGill) · 2018
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicColonial History and Postcolonial Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of AberdeenUniversity of OxfordLondon School of Economics and Political ScienceUniversity of CambridgeMcGill UniversityPrinceton University
KeywordsPoliticsPoor reliefColonialismEthnography
DOInot available

Abstract

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This dissertation examines the history of destitute Indians in Britain from 1834 to 1914.It focuses particularly on sailors and servants who worked on ships bound for Britain in hopes of good wages and promises of return.On arrival, many of these individuals were abandoned by their British employers, and were left without food, shelter, and resources.This dissertation investigates the experiences of these abandoned Indian migrants through a study of their interactions with Britons in the metropole.It looks specifically at the intervention, or lack thereof, of social and political institutions.Chiefly, it studies the contrast between the treatment of destitute Indians by administrators at the Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Africans, and South Sea Islanders, and officials within the India Office.Whereas the India Office persistently evaded any responsibility for the destitute, the Strangers' Home became a refuge where charity was offered in the form of food, lodging, and repatriation.In examining Anglo-Indian interactions and questions of social, political, legal, and moral responsibility, the dissertation simultaneously sheds light on how and where Indians fit within the notion of British subjecthood, a concept that remained undefined and contested throughout this period.At once belonging to and being separate from Britain, destitute Indians occupied an ambiguous zone of (un)belonging in the British world.iv RSUM Cette thse examine l'histoire des Indiens dmunis en Grande-Bretagne de 1834 1914.Elle se concentre spcifiquement sur les marins et les domestiques qui ont travaill au bord des navires destins la Grande-Bretagne dans l'espoir d'y retrouver un salaire dcent et un retour leur terre natale.Ds leur arrive, plusieurs de ces travailleurs ont t abandonns par leurs employeurs britanniques et laisss sans nourriture, abri ou ressources.Cette thse considre les expriences de ces migrants indiens dlaisss en analysant leurs interactions avec les Britanniques en mtropole.Elle s'intresse surtout l'intervention, ou la non-intervention, des institutions sociales et politiques.Elle expose principalement les diffrences entre le traitement des Indiens dmunis par les administrateurs du Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Africans, and South Sea Islanders et les officiels travaillant au sein du India Office .Alors que le India Office a continuellement vit d'assumer la responsabilit pour les dmunis, le Strangers' Home est devenu un refuge, c'est--dire un endroit o la charit tait offerte sous forme de nourriture, d'hbergement et de rapatriement.En examinant les relations anglo-indiennes, ainsi que les questions politiques, lgales, morales et de responsabilit sociale, la thse explore le contexte et les mthodes empruntes par les Indiens pour se conformer aux principes de la citoyennet ( subjecthood ) britannique, malgr la nature conteste et changeante de ceux-ci cette poque. la fois intgrs et l'cart de la Grande Bretagne, les Indiens dmunis ont occup une zone ambigu de (non)appartenance dans le monde britannique.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.892
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0070.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.265 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it