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'''Eleanor Zelliot''' (October 7, 1926 – June 5, 2016) was an American writer, professor of [[Carleton College]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Eleanor Zelliot|url=http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/faculty/zelliot/|publisher=carleton.edu|access-date=July 4, 2013}}</ref><ref>Teltumbde, Anand, [http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/a-teacher-and-chronicler-eleanor-zelliot-introduced-ambedkar-and-the-dalit-movement-to-the-west-2878002/ A teacher and a chronicer: Eleanor Zelliot introduced Ambedkar and the Dalit movement to the West], Indian Express, June 27, 2016</ref> and specialist on the [[history of India]], Southeast Asia, Vietnam, [[women of Asia]], [[Untouchability|Untouchables]], and [[social movements]].<ref>{{cite web|title="AMBEDKAR, B.R." BY ELEANOR ZELLIOT |url=http://www.anti-caste.org/ambedkar-br-by-eleanor-zelliot.html |publisher=www.anti-caste.org |access-date=July 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104063655/http://www.anti-caste.org/ambedkar-br-by-eleanor-zelliot.html |archive-date=November 4, 2013 |df=mdy }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Eleanor Zelliot (Carleton College)|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/area/idsas/ZELLIOT,Eleanor.htm|publisher=www.columbia.edu/|access-date=July 4, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ambedkar's World|url=http://navayana.org/ambedkars-world-2/|publisher=www.navayana.org|access-date=July 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703104544/http://navayana.org/ambedkars-world-2/|archive-date=July 3, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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 [[Navayana|Ambedkar-inspired Buddhist movement]]. She was one of the most prominent writers on Dalits of India.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wear it Parsi style|date=June 23, 2013|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/564832/wear-it-parsi-style-lady-gara/|publisher=[[Tribune (magazine)|Tribune]]|access-date=July 4, 2013}}</ref> Eleanor Zelliot was an [[Ambedkarite]] thinker, and she has done scholarly writing on the Ambedkarite movement in India.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/news/American-Ambedkar-scholar-passes-away-in-Minnesota/article14388997.ece|title = American Ambedkar scholar passes away in Minnesota|newspaper = The Hindu|date = June 7, 2016|last1 = Gaikwad|first1 = Rahi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/a-teacher-and-chronicler-eleanor-zelliot-introduced-ambedkar-and-the-dalit-movement-to-the-west-2878002/|title = A teacher and chronicler: Eleanor Zelliot introduced Ambedkar and the Dalit movement to the West|date = June 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/et-commentary/eleanor-zelliot-dr-ambedkars-greatest-follower/|title = Eleanor Zelliot, Dr. Ambedkar's greatest follower|date = June 11, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.carleton.edu/farewells/eleanor-zelliot/|title=Eleanor Zelliot - Carleton College}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/818942/what-ambedkars-anti-caste-movement-shares-with-martin-luther-kings-civil-rights-movement-in-the-us|title = What Ambedkar's anti-caste struggle shared with the US civil rights movement}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/caste/atrocities-nationalism-offer-history-lessons-beyond-bhima-koregaon|title = The Atrocities of Nationalism Offer History Lessons Beyond Bhima Koregaon}}</ref>

Zelliot died on June 5, 2016, in Minnesota.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/128695/eleanor-zelliot-1926-2106|title = Eleanor Zelliot (1926-2106) | H-Asia | H-Net}}</ref><ref>Gaikwad, Rahi (June 7, 2016). [http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/news/American-Ambedkar-scholar-passes-away-in-Minnesota/article14388997.ece Amerikan Ambedkar scholar passes away in Minnesota], The Hindu</ref>

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|last1=Sisson|first1=Richard|authorlink1=John Richard Sisson|last2=Wolpert|first2=Stanley|authorlink2=Stanley Wolpert|title=Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-Independence Phase|chapter=Congress and the Untouchables, 1917-1950|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfOSxFVQa8IC&pg=PR9|date=1 January 1988|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-06041-8|pages=182–198}}
* ''Ambedkar's World'': The Making of Babasaheb and the Dalit Movement<ref>{{cite news|last=Ramanathan|first=Suguna|title=A good story of a great life|url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/a-good-story-of-a-great-life/article4667439.ece|access-date=July 4, 2013|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=April 29, 2013}}</ref>
* From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement, Manohar Publishers, 1992. {{ISBN|818542537X}}

==See also==
* [[Gail Omvedt]]

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