The Kolhapur Corpus consists approximately of a million words of Indian written English dating from 1978. The texts are selected from 15 categories, parallel to those of the LOB and Brown Corpora.
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Sample of the Kolhapur Corpus
**[txt. a01**]
0010A01 **<<*3Politics of Job Reservations*0**>> $**[begin leader comment,
begin
0020A01 underscoring**] *3^The Bihar Government did not foresee or forestall
0030A01 the complications that_ followed its decision to_ reserve jobs for
0031A01 backward
0040A01 classes. ^The present violence in the State has raised the controversy
0050A01 over the criterion for backwardness-- whether it should be caste or
0060A01 economic conditions.*0 **[end underscoring, end leader comment**]
0070A01 $^WHY has the Bihar Government*'s decision to_ reserve jobs for
backward
0080A01 classes led to a violent outburst? ^It is not such an original idea
0090A01 that it should have triggered demonstrations and riots or attracted
all-India