Recognising caste oppression’s presence in our country’s south Asian diaspora is the first step towards stamping it out

“Our children are prohibited from joining birthday parties at the same time as other children. They are made to wait outside the place where the ritual is being undertaken. They know which caste we belong to and that’s how they think we are.

“We are untouchables. If we attend their rituals, they and the ritual will get defiled/polluted.”

Asang Wankhede is an author and a DPhil in Law candidate at the University of Oxford. He is the project lead of the National Community Consultation of Caste Discrimination, Australia

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