State of Subversion

Virinder S. Kalra is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Sacred and Secular Musics: A Postcolonial Approach (2014). Widely published, his areas of research include Punjabi popular culture, British racism and themes in creative resistance.Shalini Sharma is Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial History at Keele University, UK. She has written on radical politics in Punjab and is currently working on Indian intellectuals and the USA.

• 1. State of Subversion: Aspects of Radical Politics in Twentieth Century Punjab 2. Progressives, Punjab and Pakistan: The Early Years 3. Majlis-i-Ahrar-i-Islam: Religion, Socialism and Agitation in Action 4. An Unfulfilled Dream: The Left in Pakistan ca. 1947–50 5. Alternative Politics and Dominant Narratives: Communists and the Pakistani State in the Early 1950s 6. ‘In One Hand a Pen in the Other a Gun’: Punjabi Language Radicalism in Punjab, Pakistan 7. The Indian Workers’ Association Coventry 1938–1990: Political and Social Action 8. A Long Strange Trip: The Lives in Exile of Har Dayal 9. Communism and ‘Democracy’: Punjab Radicals and Representative Politics in the 1930s