| Honorific-Prefix: | Councillor |
| Bishan Dass Bains | |
| Office: | Lord Mayor of Wolverhampton |
| 1Blankname: | Leader |
| Term Start: | May 1986 |
| Term End: | May 1987 |
| Office2: | Member of Wolverhampton City Council for Ettingshall Ward |
| Term Start2: | 1975 |
| Term End2: | 2016 |
| Birth Place: | Shaffipur, Jalandhar, India |
| Party: | Labour (2010-present) |
| Alma Mater: | Panjab University |
Bishan Dass is a British politician who became the first British Asian Lord Mayor of Wolverhampton in 1986.[1] [2] He was first elected as Councillor of Ettingshall Ward on 1 May 1975.[3]
Bishan Dass was born in a family of Village Shaffipur in the North Indian state of Punjab.[4] In 1963, he came to the UK. He was elected for the first time to the Metropolitan Borough Council of Wolverhampton in 1979.[5]
He faced bitter experiences of casteism when Jat men of the left-wing Indian Workers Association (IWA), active in Britain since the 1950s, challenged his candidature in the local council elections in 1979.
He published a book named Pride Vs Prejudice, in which he penned down his lifelong struggle against inequality, discrimination, and prejudice. There are a number of horrifying and distressing stories about caste-based untouchability still practising in India and racial prejudice in the UK.[6]