Dr Vikram Visana is a Senior Lecturer interested in South Asian and Global History with a particular focus on political thought. He was awarded his PhD under the supervision of Chris Bayly at the University of Cambridge in 2016. He has taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Global History, Freie Universität Berlin.

Vikram currently teaches on the first-year module 'Britons Abroad, 1500-2000', the second-year modules 'Modern India: From Raj to Independence' and 'Historical Research Skills', and the final-year module 'India's "Tryst with Destiny": the Making and Remaking of the World's Largest Democracy'. 

• South Asia from c. 1780 to present
• Global Intellectual History from c. 1780 to present
• Imperial History
• World/Global History

Vikram is happy to supervise undergraduate dissertations, masters theses, and PhD theses on topics which fall under the themes listed above.

Vikram's research has centred on the global intellectual history of liberalism in Britain's colonies during and after empire. His PhD thesis on the political thought of Dadabhai Naoroji offers a new account of the foundational nature of political economy to Indian ideas of liberty in their most universal form. This thesis is currently being expanded and adapted for publication as a monorgraph.

A new project extends the study of Indian liberalism and political economy into the post-colonial era by examing the political thought of Indian 'conservatives' within the Indian National Congress in the first half of the Twentieth Century and also in India's Swatantra Party from the 1950s to 1970s.

Vikram has also conducted research on Indian ideas of sovereignty, republicanism, and populism in the political thought of V. D. Savarkar and K. M. Munshi which are forthcoming in a journal article and book chapter.

An as yet tentative third project seeks to make connections between political thought and the architecture of a path-breaking generation of 'new' Indian architects who moved beyond the Euro-American modernism of Le Corbusier and Louis Khan.