ABSTRACT
Museum culture in India sanctifying anti-colonial nationalist movements and iconocising heroes as part of an elite nationalism has been the dominant trend, but the current communal orientation of the right-wing government has tried to change the museum narratives to include their own icons and highlight the role of right-wing nationalism as a distorted Hindu exclusive universalism. The essay posits such a museum project in Delhi at the historic Red Fort with a theatre production, Ekla Cholo Re (Walk alone) in Kolkata (2018) which offers a critical historiographical approach to explore how to create strategies of resistance and dissonances in grand narratives of anti-colonial movements and its histories.
