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  2. Caste discrimination in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Ambedkar International Center and other Dalit organizations filed an amicus curiae brief, arguing that the California law does in fact prohibit caste discrimination. [51] The Hindu nationalist advocacy group Hindu American Foundation (HAF) filed a claim in a United States District Court stating that the California department infringed on ...

  3. California moves closer to historic caste discrimination ban

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    The movement to fight the caste system in North America has picked up energy in recent months. ... The Dalit community is on the lowest rung of the Hindu caste system; members have been treated as ...

  4. California caste bill veto a setback for advocates; opponents ...

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    Advocacy group Hindu American Foundation, which opposed the bill, agreed with Newsom and hailed the veto as a major win. ... The Dalit community is on the lowest rung of the Hindu caste system and ...

  5. Hindu American Foundation - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu American Foundation (abbr. HAF) is an American Hindu non-profit advocacy group founded ... blemish-free view of how the Hindu caste system was enforced in ...

  6. Fresno in California becomes only second US city to ban caste ...

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    The Dalit community is on the lowest rung of the Hindu caste system; members have been treated as "untouchables." India outlawed caste discrimination over 70 years ago, yet several studies in ...

  7. United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind - Wikipedia

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    Thind argued that, although some racial mixing did indeed occur between the Indian castes, the caste system had largely succeeded in India at preventing race-mixing. [7] Thind argued that by being a "high-caste, of full Indian blood" he was a "Caucasian" according to the anthropological definitions of his day. [9]

  8. Casta - Wikipedia

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    Given that in viceregal Spanish America there was never a closed system based on birth rights, where the birth rate and, therefore, wealth, created a "caste system" difficult to penetrate; but, rather, the statute of Limpieza de sangre (a concept of religious root and not biological or racial) was given, in which the Indian and the mestizo, as ...

  9. Aisha Wahab: author of vetoed California bill to ban caste ...

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    The Dalit community is on the lowest rung of the Hindu caste system; members have been treated as "untouchables." India outlawed caste discrimination over 70 years ago.