INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCE RESEARCH
IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY

While the caste system is primarily associated within India, this paper aims to explore the complex issues that the Dalit diaspora faces and how caste-based discrimination affects their identities and way of life even outside national borders. The Indian diaspora has inadvertently spread caste-based discrimination globally. This is particularly true in nations like the US and the UK where there is a sizeable Indian community. Identities and hierarchies based on caste, are replicated and upheld both inside and outside of Indian diaspora through transnationalization of caste by endogamy and social exclusion. Little is known about the realities of the lives of Dalit diaspora groups because of a culture of secrecy and denial, the paper investigates the same through works of DR BR Ambedkar, Yashika Dutt, Brij V Lal and Narendra Jadhav. The paper talks about the history of Dalit diaspora and how caste is maintained in diaspora communities abroad. keywords: caste discrimination, caste identity, endogamy, Dalit diaspora.