Eleanor Zelliot

Eleanor Zelliot (October 7, 1926 – June 5, 2016) was an American writer, professor of Carleton College[1][2] and specialist on the history of India, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, women of Asia, Untouchables, and social movements.[3][4][5]

Eleanor Zelliot

Zelliot wrote over eighty articles and edited three books on the movement among Untouchables in India led by B. R. Ambedkar, on saint-poets of the medieval period, and on the Ambedkar-inspired Buddhist movement. She was one of the most prominent writers on Dalits of India.[6]

Zelliot died on June 5, 2016, in Minnesota.[7][8]

Bibliography
  • Sisson, Richard; Wolpert, Stanley (January 1, 1988). "Congress and the Untouchables, 1917-1950". Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-Independence Phase. University of California Press. pp. 182–198. ISBN 978-0-520-06041-8.
  • Ambedkar's World: The Making of Babasaheb and the Dalit Movement[9]
  • From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement, Manohar Publishers, 1992. ISBN 818542537X

References
  1. "Eleanor Zelliot". carleton.edu. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
  2. Teltumbde, Anand, A teacher and a chronicer: Eleanor Zelliot introduced Ambedkar and the Dalit movement to the West, Indian Express, June 27, 2016
  3. ""AMBEDKAR, B.R." BY ELEANOR ZELLIOT". www.anti-caste.org. Archived from the original on November 4, 2013. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
  4. "Eleanor Zelliot (Carleton College)". www.columbia.edu/. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
  5. "Ambedkar's World". www.navayana.org. Archived from the original on July 3, 2013. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
  6. "Wear it Parsi style". Tribune. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
  7. https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/128695/eleanor-zelliot-1926-2106
  8. Gaikwad, Rahi (June 7, 2016). Amerikan Ambedkar scholar passes away in Minnesota, The Hindu
  9. Ramanathan, Suguna (April 29, 2013). "A good story of a great life". The Hindu. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
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