Virinder Kalra

Virinder Singh Kalra
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

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]

Publications edit

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)

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^ "Kalra shares research from new book on distinct musical genres, distinct religious identities". York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR). 23 December 2014. Retrieved 2023-01-06.

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