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

Carleton College Carleton College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling ...

and specialist on the

history of India According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. Quote: "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by m ...

, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, women of Asia, Untouchables, and

social movements A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a Social issue, social or political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to resist or undo one. It is a type of Group ...

. Zelliot wrote over eighty articles and edited three books on the movement among Untouchables in India led by

B. R. Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served a ...

, 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. Eleanor Zelliot was an

Ambedkarite Ambedkarism is called as the teaching, ideology or philosophy of B.R. Ambedkar, an Indian econonist, polymath, barrister, social reformer, human-rights advocate, and the architect of Indian Constitution. Ambedkarism includes the principles of Nava ...

thinker, and she has done scholarly writing on the Ambedkarite movement in India. Zelliot died on June 5, 2016, in Minnesota.

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* * ''Ambedkar's World'': The Making of Babasaheb and the Dalit Movement * From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement, Manohar Publishers, 1992.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zelliot, Eleanor 1926 births 2016 deaths American Indologists Carleton College faculty American writers Dalit studies American historians

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