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KUOW - Human Trafficking Allegations Thrust Caste Into Spotlight For American Hindus


Human Trafficking Allegations Thrust Caste Into Spotlight For American Hindus
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Software engineers and stone masons might not have much in common professionally, but both kinds of workers can face discrimination, if they re members of the Dalit caste in Hindu society — whether in South Asia or the United States.
So say leading advocates for the rights of Dalits, who were once known as Untouchables.
A class-action lawsuit recently filed in federal court in New Jersey alleges that a massive Hindu temple in the city of Robbinsville brought some 200 workers to the U.S. on R-1 visas as religious volunteers. But their lawyers filed court papers saying they were really held against their will, forced to work 13-hour shifts for weeks on end with no time off and paid just a little more than one dollar an hour. ....

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Hindu Trust, Accused of Labour Violations in US, Once Filed Case Against Temple Entry for Dalits


Hindu Trust, Accused of Labour Violations in US, Once Filed Case Against Temple Entry for Dalits
After India introduced laws prohibiting temples from denying entry to Dalits, the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha went to court to keep non-Satsang Dalits out of its places of worship.
Swaminarayan temple in Ahemdabad. Photo: 09bec027/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
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New Delhi: The organisation facing a suit in the US for violating labour laws by underpaying workers engaged in the construction of a temple in New Jersey – many of them Dalits – was also involved in a controversial court case in India seven decades ago that sought an injunction preventing non-Satsangi Dalits from entering the Swaminarayan temple in Ahmedabad. ....

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