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Abstract
This essay attempts to address what is unsaid in Rajwade's account of the fantastic (adbhut). The essay wonders if Rajwade's global history of narrative (kadambari) is in unspoken ways an elaboration of the allegorical possibilities inherent in the medieval Indo-Persian verse epics, the dastans. In the end, the question the essay addresses is: what is the utopian promise inherent in the fantastic (the implosion of time, understood as a temporalization of experience) which finds itself foreclosed in the comparative frames imposed by a self-assertive nationalism?