Vikram Visana

Dr Vikram Visana joined the History team as Lecturer in World History in September 2018. After completing his PhD in 2015, he held a teaching post at the University of Edinburgh and then a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Global History, Freie Universität Berlin.

Vikram currently teaches on the first-year module 'Britons Abroad, 1500-2000' and the second-year modules 'Modern India: From Raj to Independence' and 'Research Skills'. From September 2019 he will offer a new third-year module called 'India's "Tryst with Destiny": the Making and Remaking of the World's Largest Democracy', which will allow students to explore the uniqueness of the democratic revolution in India between 1947 and 2000. Using seminal tracts of political thought alongside subtitled Bollywood movies and an array of other sources, this module will approach the topic from the perspective of political elites but also that of the average Indian citizen. 

• South Asia
• Imperial History
• World/Global History
• The History of Political Thought

Vikram's research to date has focused on the global intellectual history of liberalism and how it is re-articulated in non-European contexts. His PhD focussed on the making of Indian liberalism between 1840 and 1920, which forms the basis of his forthcoming book. He is currently working on two new projects, one charts the re-imagining of British liberalism for the local conditions and customs of the Sudan Condominum from 1899 to 1960. The other examines the post-colonial fate of liberalism in India after 1947, with a particular focus on the Swatantra Party.

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