Asang Wankhede is an author and DPhil Scholar at the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis assesses the place of caste and poverty in Indian reservations. His book, the first monograph that undertakes a doctrinal assessment of upper-caste reservations in India, has been designated as a compulsory reference book for Constitutional Law-I courses in Indian law schools by the Bar Council of India. He hails from a Dalit family from a slum colony in Nagpur. His interests are hiking, writing anti-caste poetry and cooking.