The UK government has been provided with evidence that minorities who are of South Asian origin suffer discrimination based on ‘caste’ which is a particular characteristic of Indian sub-continental culture and society. It is prevalent in the Hindu diaspora in the UK and beyond. The issue that needs to be addressed is whether caste hatred can become part of any statutory definition of criminal law that will bring it on the same level as religious and racial hatred. This requires an analysis of the general category of hate crimes with a focus on the racial and religiously aggravated offences. The article examines several trends within the domestic legislative framework and case law as well as international law. It is proposed that caste should be considered as part of race for the purposes of hate crimes and that in the UK jurisdiction specifically Section 9 of the Equality Act 2010 should be amended to include caste as part of race which will then lead to caste hatred falling within the definition of a racially aggravated hate crime.