This is a living document covering caste discrimination workplace. It is updated regularly to reflect caselaw, explain legal obligations, and illustrate remedies recommended for employers by law firms, businesses, and…
What does the word casteism meaning? It is the belief and practice of assigning a person a social status of higher or lower based on the caste they were born…
What happens when AI systems learn caste biases? A few examples exist where AI systems pick up and unwittingly repeat old caste biases. Recently, the MIT Technology Review published a…
There are 3 types of caste laws worldwide: countries with specific bans, countries with general race or descent laws, and countries with local laws. No Western country has a specific…
Discrimination on the basis of caste in Canada, for now, will be addressed using provisions of the Canadian human rights acts. Human rights codes are laws that ban discrimination and…
UK Law on Caste is rather unusual. The Equality Act 2010 contains a section on caste but it has never been brought into force. Caste is not explicitly outlawed in…
This document gives an account of Ambedkar’s time at Columbia. Many Western readers are surprised to learn of Ambedkar’s time at Columbia. His time at Columbia is commendable (Columbia University,…
In India, Jai Bhim meaning is simple to understand; it’s a greeting which literally means “Victory to Bhim”. The 2021 film Jai Bhim, by Gowthamna V. Kumar, has introduced many…
Isabel Wilkerson Caste (2020, formally titled Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents), is the book that defined caste for many Americans. This book uses the US racial order and India’s…
Is caste in America discrimination illegal in the United States? At the federal level, no law prohibits caste-based discrimination. Several states (California, Illinois, New York, etc.) have workplace protections against…