The phrase correct history has many meanings. An early, sardonic use can be found in Naeem Mohaiemen’s 2014 exhibition and book Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Prisoners of Correct History), presented at the Kunsthalle Basel and curated by Adam Szymczyk. For the VLC Forum 2024, Mohaiemen revisits this project in the present, inviting us to think about the corrosive state-enforced obedient and hagiographic history being churned out of universities and publishing houses—a form of historiography that insists on a single narrative at every bend of Bangladesh’s journey since the partition of British India—while considering the power-pleasing mania for enforcing “shothik itihash” (correct history).