Eleanor Zelliot

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

Zelliot wrote over eighty articles and edited three books on the movement among Untouchables in India led by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, on saint-poets of the medieval period, and on the current Ambedkar-inspired Buddhist movement. She was one of the most prominent writers on Dalits of India.^[5]

Zelliot died on June 5, 2016, in Minnesota.^[6]

Bibliography

• Sisson, Richard; Wolpert, Stanley (1 January 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^[7]

References

1. "Eleanor Zelliot". carleton.edu. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
2. ""AMBEDKAR, B.R." BY ELEANOR ZELLIOT". www.anti-caste.org. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
3. "Eleanor Zelliot (Carleton College)". www.columbia.edu/. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
4. "Ambedkar's World". www.navayana.org. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
5. "Wear it Parsi style". Tribune. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
6. https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/128695/eleanor-zelliot-1926-2106
7. Ramanathan, Suguna (April 29, 2013). "A good story of a great life". The Hindu. Retrieved July 4, 2013.