The ‘C’ Word: Testimony and Trauma in Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman: : The Odyssey of Indenture
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Gaiutra Bahadur in Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture has chronicled the stories of indentured ‘coolie women’ who suffered severe domestic abuse, bodily mutilations, and even murder. Bahadur's quest for unearthing her great-grandmother Sujaria’s story becomes an exercise in bringing the history of a quarter million other ‘coolie’ women into the light. By employing an interdisciplinary lens, the paper aims to unravel the experiences of such oppressed women in the Caribbean context during the period of colonization. The paper additionally aspires to scrutinize the text as a testimonial writing that accentuates the voices of the voiceless through the author. This will be achieved by analyzing the primary sources and employing a theoretical framework associated with gender, diaspora, and postcolonialism. Not only does the research disclose various marginalized aspects of history, but it also offers valuable perspectives to enable contemporary discussions associated with gender and social injustice.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".