Khalid Anis Ansari is director, Dr Ambedkar Centre for Exclusion Studies & Transformative Action (ACESTA), Glocal University (India). He broadly works in the field of social and cultural theory and takes keen interest in both grassroots organising and scholarly interventions to publicise the socio-political aspirations of subordinated caste Pasmanda Muslims. He was awarded the HIVOS PhD Fellowship—Pluralism Knowledge Programme (2010-2013) for his doctoral work on caste movements among Indian Muslims with the University of Humanistic Studies (UvH), Utrecht, the Netherlands. He has published widely in the Economic & Political Weekly, The Indian Express, The Hindu, Round Table India, The Print, Himal South Asian, The Wire, The Pioneer, Mainstream Weekly, Kafila, Raiot, Prabhat Khabar and Dainik Hindustan.
Twitter: @KhalidAAnsari4.