[2][3] Raised in Bradford, the son of an immigrant corner shop owner,[4] Dhand was educated at Fulneck School, a boarding and day private school in the market town of Pudsey (near Leeds) in West Yorkshire.
Dhand originally trained as a pharmacist and worked in London, but returned to his home town to start a pharmacy business and write books.
[5] He is now a regular contributor to a number of British Asian and crime writers' fora.
These have featured the Bradford-based police detective Harry Virdee, a progressive British Sikh who struggles with his cultural identity and family loyalties.
Race, violence and exploitation are on the agenda in the Virdee novels, and Dhand has not shied away from controversial issues of tension between British Asian communities.