18 research outputs found
THE CAREER OF MUHAMMAD BARKATULLAH (1864-1927): FROM INTELLECTUAL TO ANTICOLONIAL REVOLUTIONARY
No full textThis thesis analyzes the transition of Muhammad Barkatullah, a Muslim-Indian living under British colonial rule, from intellectual to anti-British revolutionary. The thesis assumes that this transition was not inevitable and seeks to explain when, why, and how Barkatullah became radicalized and turned to violent, revolutionary means in order to achieve independence from British rule, and away from demanding justice and equality within an imperial framework. To do this, the focus of the thesis is on the early period of his career leading up to the beginning of WWI. It examines his movements, intellectual production, and connections with various networks in the context of of major global events in order to illuminate his journey to revolutionary anti-colonialism.Master of Art
Coupled Internationalisms: Charting Muhammad Barkatullah's Anti-colonialism and Pan-Islamism
No full textA RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF PAN-ASIANISM: SOUTH ASIA, JAPAN, AND ANTICOLONIAL INTERNATIONALISM
No full textIn this dissertation, I explore the significance of “religion” and “Asianness” in the ideas, ambitions, and relationships of a select group of anticolonial revolutionaries from India who used Japan as a base for their political projects between 1905 and 1945. Although my dissertation’s focus is on Indian anticolonial figures like Muhammad Barkatullah and Rash Behari Bose, not only do I explore their relationships with other Indian revolutionaries both inside and outside Japan, but I also put them in conversation with Ceylonese, Japanese, and Euro-American actors with whom they were in direct or indirect contact. I begin my dissertation with British imaginings of Asian religions and end with reflections of ‘Japanese Orientalists’ like Ōkawa Shūmei. In between, the dissertation introduces several Indian revolutionary colleagues and interlocutors, such as Har Dayal, V.D. Savarkar, M.N. Roy, and Aurobindo Ghose.I make two central arguments in my dissertation regarding the role of religion in the political projects of Pan-Asianists from India in Japan. First, I argue that a new conceptual understanding of religion gave Asia coherence in Pan-Asianist discourse and political organizing. Second, while South Asian and Japanese figures challenged many of the racialized assumptions of Euro-American thinkers about Asian religious traditions in their attempts to resist the British Empire, I argue that they were unable to escape a central component of Orientalist scholarship: the “problem of origins.” I use the “problem of origins” to refer to the notion that the essential core of religious traditions was to be found in a particular geographic place, race, and language through a study of sacred texts, early religious sites, and religious founding figures.Doctor of Philosoph
Expected improvement based infill sampling for global robust optimization of constrained problems
No full textA novel adaptive sampling scheme for efficient global robust optimization of constrained problems is proposed. The method addresses expensive to simulate black-box constrained problems affected by uncertainties for which only the bounds are known, while the probability distribution is not available. An iterative strategy for global robust optimization that adaptively samples the Kriging metamodel of the computationally expensive problem is proposed. The presented approach is tested on several benchmark problems and the average performance based on 100 runs is evaluated. The applicability of the method to engineering problems is also illustrated by applying robust optimization on an integrated photonic device affected by manufacturing uncertainties. The numerical results show consistent convergence to the global robust optimum using a limited number of expensive simulations.</p
Adaptive efficient global optimization of systems with independent components
No full textWe present a novel approach for efficient optimization of systems consisting of expensive to simulate components and relatively inexpensive system-level simulations. We consider the types of problem in which the components of the system problem are independent in the sense that they do not exchange coupling variables, however, design variables can be shared across components. Component metamodels are constructed using Kriging. The metamodels are adaptively sampled based on a system level infill sampling criterion using Efficient Global Optimization. The effectiveness of the technique is demonstrated by applying it on numerical examples and an engineering case study. Results show steady and fast converge to the global deterministic optimum of the problems.</p
