Oppressed ‘Self/Selves’

An attempt has been made in this chapter to show how performance, with all its attributes, became a temporal and spatial arena for communicating/transforming the notion of nationhood, as conceived by the performer-ideologue, into the understanding/comprehension of the audience. Therefore, it is at this juncture that we have to pay close attention to understand the process of transubstantiation and how it engendered an emotional bond/nationhood that substituted one meaning for the other, and the muted voices found release in the nuanced perception of a Swadeshi nationhood.