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
archive.indianexpress.com/news/uk-wakes-…
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
A 2010 study commissioned by the Government Equalities Office found caste system to be deeply entrenched in Britain in the form of discrimination & bullying in schools, workplaces, and places of worship:
gov.uk/government/pub…
Jeremy Corbyn writes in this 2006 @DSNUK report on how casteism "has been exported to the UK through the Indian diaspora. The same attitudes of superiority, pollution and separateness appear to be present in South Asian communities now settled in the UK."
dalits.nl/pdf/noescape.p…
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.