In April 2013, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act was enacted. Section 97 of the Act requires government to introduce a statutory prohibition of caste discrimination into British equality law by making caste an aspect of the protected characteristic of race in the Equality Act 2010. In the context of this direction, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) contracted a team of academics drawn from different research institutions to carry out an independent study on caste in Britain. This report is one of two reports published by the research team led by Meena Dhanda.

This is one of two research reports resulting from the Equality and Human Rights Commission UK funded independent research project - Caste in Britain (2013-2014) - with consortium leader as PI, Meena Dhanda and 6 Co-Is: Annapurna Waughray, David Mosse, David Keene, Stephen Whittle, Roger Green and Stephen Iafrati.