PAARI English Dataset

Dataset Description

This dataset contains journalism articles in English (English) from the People's Archive of Rural India (PAARI). The articles focus on rural life, agriculture, social issues, and cultural stories from rural India.

Dataset Details

Language: English (English)
Script: Latin
Language Code: en
Dataset Type: Standard
Source: Rural India Online
License: Please refer to PAARI's terms of use

Dataset Structure

Standard Dataset Fields

title: Article title in English
text: Full article content in English

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("keplersystems/PAARI-English")

# Access examples
for article in dataset["train"]:
    print(f"Title: {article["title"]}")
    print(f"Text: {article["text"][:200]}...")

Text Processing

The text has been cleaned and processed with:

HTML entity decoding
HTML tag removal
Latin-specific text normalization
Whitespace normalization
Paragraph structure preservation

Data Quality

Articles filtered for completeness (both title and text required)
Language-specific text cleaning applied
Full article integrity maintained

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@misc{paari-en-dataset,
    title={PAARI English Dataset},
    author={People's Archive of Rural India},
    howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/keplersystems/PAARI-English}},
    year={2025}
}

Acknowledgments

This dataset is derived from the excellent journalism work of the People's Archive of Rural India (PAARI) and Rural India Online. We thank all the journalists, photographers, and contributors who created this valuable content documenting rural Indian life and culture.

Contact

For questions about this dataset, please open an issue on the dataset repository.

Datasets:

keplersystems
/

PAARI-English

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