title: Virinder Kalra
text: # Virinder Kalra
  
  Virinder Singh Kalra (born March 1967) 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. He was a senior lecturer and then Professor in Sociology at the University of Manchester.
  
  ## 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)
  