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[1]. Passage: Archives do not simply store the past; they decide which past can be proved. A letter kept in an archive can overturn a textbook paragraph, while a voice never recorded can disappear even if thousands once heard it. Historians therefore read archives against their grain: who kept this record, who could afford to keep records, and whose lives were never written down? A student who asks these questions learns that history is not a single story waiting to be found, but an argument built from uneven evidence, where silence itself must be explained. The passage's main argument is that archives:
Option 3 : Decide which past can be proved, because evidence is uneven
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सही उत्तर Decide which past can be proved, because evidence is uneven है।
Archives decide provable past; evidence is uneven.
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[1]. Passage: Archives do not simply store the past; they decide which past can be proved. A letter kept in an archive can overturn a textbook paragraph, while a voice never recorded can disappear even if thousands once heard it. Historians therefore read archives against their grain: who kept this record, who could afford to keep records, and whose lives were never written down? A student who asks these questions learns that history is not a single story waiting to be found, but an argument built from uneven evidence, where silence itself must be explained. The passage's main argument is that archives:
Correct Answer: Decide which past can be proved, because evidence is uneven
Archives decide provable past; evidence is uneven.