![]() Yet it is precisely the possibility of what might have happened but didn't that gives an immediate but inexhaustible magic to some of the 20th century's most triumphal historical narratives. Guha reminds us, more than once, that it's the historian's job to tell us what happened, and not spend too much time speculating on what might have. ![]() ![]() Historical narrative, too, depends on familiarity enlivened by interpretative freshness and the surprise of new archival research but there's also, at times, something else. In mythic retelling, it is repetition itself, accompanied by improvisatory flourishes, that transfixes the audience by returning it to known terrain. ![]()
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