Robert Ivermee
Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in British civilisation at Institut Catholique de Paris Personal website: https://icp.academia.edu/RobertIvermee
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Research
Research themes
– The history of the British Empire
– British and wider European colonialism in South Asia
– Ideas and practices of colonial rule
– Environmental history
– Conceptions of secularism and pluralism
Current Project
– British colonial attempts to control and improve the River Hooghly in Bengal (the development of themes pursued in Hooghly: The Global History of a River)
– The human impact on the natural world in British colonial India (a new project started in 2021)
– French colonialism and Anglo-French exchanges in India (monograph in progress)
Research Supervision:
– British history and civilisation (from the eighteenth century to the present)
– Ideas and practices of colonialism
– Environmental history
Bio
– 2009-2013, PhD, University of Kent. Topic: The history of the concept of secularism in nineteenth century India under British colonial rule
– 2010-2015, Assistant Lecturer, University of Kent
– 2012-2014, Research Coordinator and Postdoctoral Researcher, Heythrop College, University of London
– 2014-2021, Project Manager, SOAS University of London
– 2018-2021, Teaching Fellow, Institut Catholique de Paris
– 2021-present, Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in British civilisation, Institut Catholique de Paris
Media
Publications
Articles
Authored books:
– Hooghly: The Global History of a River (Hurst, 2020; Harper Collins India, 2021)
– Secularism, Islam and Education in India, 1830-1910 (Pickering & Chatto, 2015; Routledge, 2016)
Articles :
- ‘The Hooghly River: A Sacred and Secular Waterway’, Education About Asia, 22:2 (2017): Water and Asia, 30-34.
- ‘Shari’at and Muslim community in colonial Punjab, 1865-85’, Modern Asian Studies, 48:4 (2014), 1068-95.
- ‘Kipling, the “backward” Muslim and the ends of colonial pedagogy’, Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 36:3 (2014), 251-68.
- ‘Islamic education and colonial secularism: the Amroha experiment of 1895-96’, South Asian History and Culture, 5:1 (2014), 21-36