Eleanor Zelliot

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

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] Eleanor Zelliot was an Ambedkarite thinker, and she has done scholarly writing on the Ambedkarite movement in India.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]}

Zelliot died on June 5, 2016, in Minnesota.^[13][14]

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^[15]
• From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement, Manohar Publishers, 1992. ISBN 818542537X

See also

• Gail Omvedt

References