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The UK media first reported on caste discrimination in 2010, a decade prior to #Casteism_In_Cisco, when a Dalit employee at a law firm approached the employment tribunal against his Sikh employers. Link to my 2013 story on the case & UK's anti-caste movt
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The law firm employee was harassed & abused for his inter-caste marriage with a Sikh Jat colleague, & eventually fired. A member from Caste Watch UK found his home vandalised after he deposed before the tribunal as an expert witness in the case.
UK has seen a long struggle by anti-caste groups to include caste discrimination as a form of race discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. Lobbying by upper-caste Hindu-Sikh orgs hv ensured that each time the UK gov came close to enacting the amendment, it abandoned its plans
