Gurminder K. Bhambra
Title
Gurminder K. Bhambra
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Birthplace
England
Primary Sources
Bhambra, G. K. (2025). Empires, Famine, and the Significance of the Political Economy of Colonialism: From the Mughal Empire to British Colonial Rule in India. European Journal of Sociology, 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0003975625000050
Bhambra, G. K., & Newell, P. (2023). More than a metaphor: ‘climate colonialism’ in perspective. Global Social Challenges Journal, 2(2), 179-187. Accessed Apr 24, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1332/EIEM6688
Bhambra, G. K., & McClure, J. (Eds).(2022) Imperial Inequalities: The Politics of Economic Governance Across European Empires, Manchestor University. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526166142/
Bhambra, G. K., & Holmwood, J. (2021). Colonialism and modern social theory. John Wiley & Sons. https://www.wiley.com/en-au/Colonialism+and+Modern+Social+Theory-p-9781509541294
Bhambra, G. K., & Newell, P. (2023). More than a metaphor: ‘climate colonialism’ in perspective. Global Social Challenges Journal, 2(2), 179-187. Accessed Apr 24, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1332/EIEM6688
Bhambra, G. K., & McClure, J. (Eds).(2022) Imperial Inequalities: The Politics of Economic Governance Across European Empires, Manchestor University. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526166142/
Bhambra, G. K., & Holmwood, J. (2021). Colonialism and modern social theory. John Wiley & Sons. https://www.wiley.com/en-au/Colonialism+and+Modern+Social+Theory-p-9781509541294
Bhambra, G. K. (2021). Decolonizing critical theory? Epistemological justice, progress, reparations. Critical Times, 4(1), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8855227
Bhambra, G. K., Nişancıoğlu, K., & Gebrial, D. (2020). Decolonising the university in 2020. Identities, 27(4), 509–516. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2020.1753415
Bhambra, G. K., Gebrial, D., & Nişancıoğlu, K. (2018). Decolonising the university. Pluto Press.
Bhambra, G. K. (2016). Postcolonial reflections on sociology. Sociology, 50(5), 960-966. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0038038516647683
Bhambra, G., & Narayan, J. (Eds.). (2016). European Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Societies (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315659992
Bhambra, G.K. (2014). Connected Sociologies. London: Bloomsbury Academic. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472544377
Bhambra, G. K. (2014). Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues. Postcolonial studies, 17(2), 115-121.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13688790.2014.966414Bhambra, G. K (2007). Rethinking modernity: Postcolonialism and the sociological imagination. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230206410
Secondary Sources
Hegde, S. (2022). Book review: Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory. Sociological Bulletin, 71(2), 305–307. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380229221081996
Orrells, D., Bhambra, G. K., & Roynon, T. (Eds.). (2011). African Athena: new agendas. OUP Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199595006.001.0001
Extra Resources
About Gurminder K Bhambra. Accessed July 25, 2022. https://gkbhambra.net/
THEORY for a GLOBAL AGE. Accessed July 25 2022. https://gkbhambra.net/theory-for-a-global-age/
The Five Giants - A New Beveridge Report. (2022, February 19). New Series 2(3). The Sociological Review. Accessed July 25, 2022. https://discoversociety.org/
Gurminder K Bhambra. Global Social Theory. Accessed July 25, 2022. https://globalsocialtheory.org/
Gurminder K Bhambra. Connected Sociologies. Accessed July 25, 2022. https://www.connectedsociologies.org/
Citation
“Gurminder K. Bhambra,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 23, 2026, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/747.