Eleanor Zelliot

Eleanor Zelliot

Eleanor Zelliot (October 7, 1926 – June 5, 2016) was an American writer, retired 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]

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 current 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 (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[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. 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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