# Dalitstan.org > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dalitstan.org > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dalitstan.org.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalitstan.org > Source revision: 1275625816 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Infobox website | name = Dalitstan.org | logo = Dalitstan-logo.JPG | logocaption = | url = {{URL|dalitstan.org}} | commercial = No | type = [Dalit](/source/Dalit) [advocacy](/source/advocacy) | registration = | language = [English](/source/English_language), [Hindi](/source/Hindi_language) | launch_date = 1999 | current_status = Offline }} '''Dalitstan.org''' was a [Dalit](/source/Dalit) [advocacy](/source/Advocacy_group) website active until mid-2006,{{cite book | author=Dibyesh Anand | title=Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lbpfAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT34 | date=15 October 2011 | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan | isbn=978-0-230-36263-5 | pages=34–}} one of 18 websites that were blocked by the [Indian government](/source/Indian_government) following the [11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings](/source/11_July_2006_Mumbai_train_bombings).{{cite news | url = https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-blocks-18-sites-to-check-hate-messages/articleshow/1773584.cms| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130527095335/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-07-19/india/27816956_1_govt-blocks-check-terror-websites| url-status = live| archive-date = 2013-05-27| newspaper = [The Times of India](/source/The_Times_of_India)| title = Govt blocks 18 sites to check hate messages | date = 2006-07-19 }} The website claimed to be run by '''Dalitstan''', a "Human Rights Organization working for the Upliftment of Dalits, the [Untouchables](/source/Untouchability) of India".{{cite book | author1=Anjana Narayan | author2=Bandana Purkayastha | title=Living Our Religions: Hindu and Muslim South Asian American Women Narrate Their Experiences | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cDF7Ow_FJ8kC&pg=PA270 | year=2009 | publisher=Kumarian Press | isbn=978-1-56549-270-7 | pages=270–}} Note that [-stan](/source/-stan) is a [suffix](/source/suffix) for "place of"{{cite web|last=Johnson |first=Bridget |title='Stan Countries – What the Suffix 'Stan' Means |publisher=[About.com](/source/About.com) |url=http://worldnews.about.com/od/centralandeastasia/f/stans.htm |accessdate=October 9, 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130401162910/http://worldnews.about.com/od/centralandeastasia/f/stans.htm |archivedate=2013-04-01 |url-status=live }} or "country",{{cite web|url = http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=-stan|title = -stan|first = Douglas|last = Harper|authorlink = Douglas Harper|publisher = [Online Etymology Dictionary](/source/Online_Etymology_Dictionary)|accessdate = January 18, 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101195443/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=-stan|archivedate=2014-01-01|url-status=live}} appearing in many [place names](/source/place_names) throughout [Central](/source/Central_Asia) and [South Asia](/source/South_Asia). Dalitstan would mean "place or country of the [Dalits](/source/Dalits)". ==Claims and counter-claims== The website claimed that the Dalits were the original people of India who created the [Harappan civilization](/source/Harappan_civilization), and described the [Brahmin](/source/Brahmin)s as the descendants of the [Aryan invaders](/source/Aryan_invasion) who enslaved them.{{cite book | author=Judith E. Walsh | title=A Brief History of India | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iekF9X3OwwMC&pg=PA15 | date=1 January 2006 | publisher=Infobase Publishing | isbn=978-1-4381-0825-4 | pages=15–}} Dibyesh Anand of the [University of Westminster](/source/University_of_Westminster) described Dalitstan.org as a Dalit nationalist group that also acted as a forum for anti-India Christian and Muslim advocacy.{{cite book|last=Anand|first=Dibyesh|title=Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear|year=2011|publisher=Palgrave-Macmillan|isbn=978-0230603851|pages=56–59}} ==Blocked by the Indian government== Dalitistan.org was among the 18 websites that were blocked in India by the [Department of Telecommunications](/source/Department_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](/source/11_July_2006_Mumbai_train_bombings). ==History of domain== The website was launched in 1999, with the domain registered by Helen Heklund, with an address in [Granbury, Texas](/source/Granbury%2C_Texas). The website was taken down sometime after May 2006.{{cite web|title=Archived Results from Jan 01, 1996 - latest for dalitstan.org |url=http://dalitstan.org/ |work=Internet Archive Wayback Machine |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060510134217/http://www.dalitstan.org/ |archivedate=2006-05-10 }} The domain registration lapsed, and was subsequently purchased by an unrelated party. ==See also== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *[Dalit nationalism](/source/Dalit_nationalism) *[-stan](/source/-stan) ([suffix](/source/suffix) for "place of" or "country") *[List of Dalits](/source/List_of_Dalits) *[Indo-Iranians](/source/Indo-Iranians) *[Indigenous Aryans](/source/Indigenous_Aryans) *[Indo-Aryan migration theory](/source/Indo-Aryan_migration_theory) *[Historiography and nationalism](/source/Historiography_and_nationalism) *[Saffronization](/source/Saffronization) *[NCERT controversy](/source/NCERT_controversy) *[Pakistani textbooks controversy](/source/Pakistani_textbooks_controversy) *[Anti-Brahminism](/source/Anti-Brahminism) *[Anti-Hindi agitations](/source/Anti-Hindi_agitations) *[History of the Indian caste system](/source/History_of_the_Indian_caste_system) *[Caste system](/source/Caste_system) *[Varna (Hinduism)](/source/Varna_(Hinduism)) *[Indigenous peoples](/source/Indigenous_peoples) *[Indigenous archaeology](/source/Indigenous_archaeology) {{div col end}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060510134217/http://www.dalitstan.org/ Dalistan.org] (archived copy from 2006) {{Social issues in India}} {{Authority control}} Category:Dalit politics Category:Asian political websites Category:Indian websites Category:Political mass media in India Category:Pseudohistory Category:Anti-Brahminism --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Dalitstan.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalitstan.org) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalitstan.org?action=history)). 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