Deepak Sarma


Deepak Sarma is a professor of Hinduism and Indian Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University.

Career

Sarma has held appointments at Vanderbilt University, Connecticut College, and Yale University. A scholar of Dvaita / Madhva Vedanta, Sarma's main interests and pursuits are method and theory in the study of Hinduism, modern and contemporary Hinduism, bioethics, cultural theory, and post-colonial studies. He received a doctoral degree in the Philosophy of Religions from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago in 1998 and was among the first contemporary western trained scholars of Madhva Vedanta. His works on Madhva Vedanta include An Introduction to Madhva Vedanta and Epistemologies and the Limitations of Philosophical Inquiry: Doctrine in Madhva Vedanta.
His recent books include: Hinduism: A Reader and Classical Indian Philosophy: A Reader. Sarma also writes .