1st Edition

Capturing Caste in Law The Legal Regulation of Caste Discrimination

By Annapurna Waughray Copyright 2022
336 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

336 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

336 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is about the legal regulation of caste discrimination. It highlights the difficulty of capturing caste in international and domestic law, and suggests solutions. Its aim is to contribute to the task of understanding how to secure effective legal protection from and prevention of discrimination on grounds of caste, and why this is important and necessary. It does this by examining the... Read more

1. What is Caste?

2. The Dalits and the History of Caste Inequality

3. The Legal Regulation of Caste Discrimination: Lessons from India

4. Caste Discrimination and International Human Rights Law Standards: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965 and the UN Human Rights Treaties

5. Caste Discrimination and International Human Rights Law Standards: UN Charter Bodies

6. Caste in the UK 1950-2009

7. British Discrimination Law and Caste: from the Race Relations Act 1965 to the Equality Bill 2009

8. Caste Discrimination and the Making of the Equality Act 2010Chapter 9: Caste Discrimination in the UK: beyond the Equality Act 2010

Biography

Annapurna Waughray is Professor of Human Rights Law at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.