Dalitstan.org was a
Dalit advocacy
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website active until mid-2006,
one of 18 websites that were blocked by the Indian government following the
11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings
The 2006 Mumbai train bombings were a series of seven bomb blasts on 11 July. They took place over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai, the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the nation's financial capit ...
.
The website claimed to be run by Dalitstan, a "Human Rights Organization working for the Upliftment of Dalits, the
Untouchables of India". Note that
-stan
The suffix -stan ( fa, ـستان, translit=''stân'' after a vowel; ''estân'' or ''istân'' after a consonant), has the meaning of "a place abounding in" or "a place where anything abounds" in the Persian language. It appears in the names of ...
is a
suffix
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for "place of"
or "country",
appearing in many
place names throughout
Central
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Central may also refer to:
Directions and generalised locations
* Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known as ...
and
South Asia. Dalitstan would mean "place or country of the
Dalits".
Claims and counter-claims
The website claimed that the Dalits were the original people of India who created the
Harappan civilization, and described the
Brahmins as the descendants of the
Aryan invaders who enslaved them.
Dibyesh Anand of the
University of Westminster described Dalitstan.org as a Dalit nationalist group that also acted as a forum for anti-India Christian and Muslim advocacy.
Blocked by the Indian government
Dalitistan.org was among the 18 websites that were blocked in India by the Ministry of Telecommunications of the Government in July 2006, in a bid to check terror and hate messages on the Internet following the
11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings
The 2006 Mumbai train bombings were a series of seven bomb blasts on 11 July. They took place over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai, the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the nation's financial capit ...
.
History of domain
The website was launched in 1999, with the domain registered by Helen Heklund, with an address in
Granbury, Texas. The website was taken down sometime after May 2006.
The domain registration lapsed, and was subsequently purchased by an unrelated party.
See also
*
Dalit nationalism
*
-stan
The suffix -stan ( fa, ـستان, translit=''stân'' after a vowel; ''estân'' or ''istân'' after a consonant), has the meaning of "a place abounding in" or "a place where anything abounds" in the Persian language. It appears in the names of ...
(
suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry ...
for "place of" or "country")
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List of Dalits
Following is a list of notable Dalit people organised by profession, field, or focus.
Academics
*B.R. Ambedkar, economist and reformer
* Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation
*Narendra Jadhav, economis ...
*
Indo-Iranians
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Indigenous Aryans
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Indo-Aryan migration theory
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Historiography and nationalism
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Saffronization
''Saffronisation'' or ''saffronization'' is the right-wing policy approach that seeks to implement a Hindu nationalist agenda, for example onto school textbooks. Critics have used this political neologism to refer to the policies of Hindu natio ...
*
NCERT controversy
*
Pakistani textbooks controversy
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Anti-Brahminism
Anti-Brahminism or Non-Brahminism is a term used in opposition to caste-based hierarchical social order which places Brahmins at its highest position. Initial expressions of Anti-Brahminism emerged from instances of pre-colonial opposition to the ...
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Anti-Hindi agitations
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History of the Indian caste system
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Caste system
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Varna (Hinduism)
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Indigenous peoples
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Indigenous archaeology
References
External links
Dalistan.org(archived copy from 2006)
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Dalit politics
Indian political websites
Pseudohistory
Anti-Brahminism