Eleanor Zelliot was an American writer, professor of Carleton College and specialist on the History of India, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, women of Asia, Untouchables, social movements.
She 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 Ambedkar-inspired Buddhist movement. She was one of the most prominent writers on Dalits of India.