Virinder Kalra

Virinder Singh Kalra (born March 1967^[1]) is an Indian-British sociologist and Professor at the University of Warwick whose research interests include Gramscianism, popular culture, South Asian diaspora and racism in the United Kingdom.^[2][3][4] He was a senior lecturer and then Professor in Sociology at the University of Manchester.^[5][6]

Virinder Singh Kalra
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Manchester
Thesis	From Textile Mills to Taxi-Ranks: Experiences of Labour Amongst Mirpuris/(Azad) Kashmiris in Oldham (1997)
Doctoral advisor	Roger Ballard
Academic work
Institutions	University of Warwick
Doctoral students	Tim Winter

Publications

• From Textile Mills to Taxi Ranks (2000)
• Diaspora and Hybridity (2005)
• A Postcolonial People (2006)
• Pakistani Diasporas: Culture, Conflict, and Change (2008)
• Sacred and Secular Musics: A Postcolonial Approach (2014)
• State of Subversion: Radical Politics in Punjab in the 20th Century (2016)
• Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan: Gender and Caste, Borders and Boundaries (2019)