After one recent meeting, Nepal announced that it was outlawing discrimination based on caste.
Discrimination based on caste has been illegal in India for more than six decades.
But laws and regulations to enforce that have not been put into effect, and none cover discrimination based on caste.
Some of India's 14m enslaved people were also born into slavery, based on caste or other obligations.
As group identities based on caste, ethnicity and religion gradually attenuated, anger and hope were being privatised, like so much else in Mumbai.
Hindus condemned any discrimination based on caste (obviously), but many had serious concerns about the consequences and practicality of such legislation, and the impact it may have on entrenching the outdated notion of caste-based discrimination in Britain.
But changing religion didn't help: the roots of discrimination based on caste run deep in both Indian and Pakistani society.
And we met with remarkable civil society leaders, working for an end to discrimination based on caste, gender, and sexual identity.
Though we attempted to compare socio-economic groups based on caste and whether respondents were above or below the poverty line, we found that respondents in all categories saw themselves as relatively poor, and though this is a relevant finding we cannot use this to make broad conclusions on how differences in socio-economic status impact delivery preferences.
Links between empowerment of women through income generation and education, reduction of discrimination based on caste and sex, and promotion of individual and community mental health were recognised.
