{"id":9611,"date":"2010-10-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/08\/caste-discrimination-uk-dalits-win-the-argument-nearly\/"},"modified":"2010-10-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T12:00:00","slug":"caste-discrimination-uk-dalits-win-the-argument-nearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/08\/caste-discrimination-uk-dalits-win-the-argument-nearly\/","title":{"rendered":"Caste Discrimination&#8211;U.K. Dalits Win The Argument, Nearly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/columns\/Hasan_Suroor\/article611931.ece?css=print\">www.thehindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, September 4, 2010: There&#8217;s a palpable mood of optimism among Britain&#8217;s 2,00,000-strong Dalit community as it waits for the Government to take a decision on its long-standing campaign for caste discrimination to be recognized as racism. Barring a last-minute change, Britain could soon become the first European, indeed Western, country to declare caste prejudice unlawful under its race laws &#8212; a move which will not please New Delhi which has consistently opposed caste being clubbed with race.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s new Equality Act already empowers the Government to declare &#8220;caste to be an aspect of race&#8221; without seeking fresh parliamentary approval. Much will depend on the findings of a study it has commissioned to determine the extent of caste discrimination. The report of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a leading independent research body which is conducting the research, is expected in the autumn and campaigners are confident that it will back their own claims about how &#8220;widespread&#8221; caste prejudice in Britain, really, is.<\/p>\n<p>The issue has divided Britain&#8217;s Indian diaspora and right-wing groups such as the Hindu Forum of Britain have launched a counter-campaign arguing that the Government has no right to intervene in what they claim is the community&#8217;s internal affair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.thehindu.com UNITED KINGDOM, September 4, 2010: There&#8217;s a palpable mood of optimism among Britain&#8217;s 2,00,000-strong Dalit community as it,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}