Editing Caste (section)

==== United Kingdom ====
In July 2013, the UK government announced its intention to amend the [[Equality Act 2010]], to "introduce legislation on caste, including any necessary exceptions to the caste provisions, within the framework of domestic discrimination law".<ref>{{cite web |website=Government Equalities Office |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/225658/130726-Caste-Discrimination.pdf |title=Caste legislation introduction – programme and timetable |access-date=2 June 2016}}</ref> Section 9(5) of the Equality Act 2010 provides that "a [[Minister (government)|Minister]] may by [[Statutory order|order]] amend the statutory definition of race to include caste and may provide for exceptions in the Act to apply or not to apply to caste".{{cn|date=February 2025}}

From September 2013 to February 2014, [[Meena Dhanda]] led a project on "Caste in Britain" for the UK [[Equality and Human Rights Commission]] (EHRC).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/publication-download/research-report-91-caste-britain-socio-legal-review |title=Research report 91: Caste in Britain: Socio-legal Review |website=[[Equality and Human Rights Commission]] |access-date=21 October 2017 |archive-date=27 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227084332/https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/publication-download/research-report-91-caste-britain-socio-legal-review}}</ref>