Construction of Indian Characters in Rudyard Kipling's Kim and E. M. Forster's A Passage to India
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Abstract
Rudyard Kipling’s Kim (1901) and E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) are some of the best works of symbolic colonialist literature, literature which tries to find solutions to the problem between the colonizer and the colonized. Published at the beginning and the end of the first quarter of the 20th century, these novels can be studied as guideposts for some of the most crucial events in India’s history and progression towards independence. It is apparent that Kipling and Forster held vastly different opinions on the conducts of the British Empire in India, which partly stems from their different upbringings. As most of Kipling’s formative years had been spent in India, it has a special place in his heart, and thus he is more inclined to focus on the allegedly positive sides of colonialism, whilst ignoring or diminishing the cracks in the social fabric of India. This in turn produced a pro-Empire novel whose stereotyped characters can be studied as types of different people one could have met in the beginning of the 20th century in India. Forster had only visited India as an adult, and consequently there was no reason not to see the cracks that Kipling tried to ignore. As a result, in A Passage to India Forster places more focus on the negative sides of colonialism. His characters feel that the time of the Empire is near its end, and they anticipate change. The characters are more willing to put their differences aside and unite for a common purpose as they wait for a chance to fight for independence. Forster’s focus is not on the physical appearance or customs of his characters, but rather he focuses on the internal struggles of Indian characters, and he tackles the question of what it means to be Indian during the British Raj.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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.
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