Prof. Dr. Jakob De Roover

Department

Research group(s)

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Projects

Knowing India in the Low Countries, 1780-1960. The creation of a cultural experience (2025 - 2029)
ESIND. Europe's representations of India. Texts, images, and encounters. A COST action (2024 - 2028)
Developing an outline of India studies. A project for the consolidation of ideas related to India studies and sketching possible future pathways (2019 - 2021)
The separation of temple and state. A comparative study of religious freedom and traditional institutions in India and the west (2019 - 2024)
Colonial consciousness and the caste system in 20th-century India. A study of the intellectual and institutional impact of orientalist discourse (2016 - 2021)
The art of adultery. An analysis of Samala's collection of stories 'Sudabahomteri' and its cultural setting (2016 - 2020)
Cold war social science and the development of the human sciences in Europe and India (2015 - 2016)

Publications

Teaching

Teaching Comparative Study of Religions in Dutch and English to students in various humanities and social sciences programmes.

Tutorials and guidance, 3rd year Bachelor students of History:

2022-23: Historical Practice 3: Bachelor paper: India in Europe, Europe in India

2023-24: Historical Practice 3: Bachelor paper: Europe and the Other: Asia