Subseries documents Sharma’s academic years, from his early period at Allahabad University (in the late 50s) to his Harvard PhD (1978), through study notes, grade bulletins and diplomas.

Subseries documents Sharma’s professional activities through a 25 page CV, 13 recommendation letters for his application to Harvard’s PhD program and 2 recommendation letters for a position in Northeastern University’s Department of Philosophy and Religion in 1967 and a position Williams College’s Department of Religion in 1978, respectively.

Subseries contains objects of personal value to Sharma and includes gifts, linens and travel documents.

Subseries contains private papers of Sharma, including financial records, properties, martial documents, and personal legal records.

This sub series contains Sharma’s published works, including small articles and extended pieces, with the Montilal Banarsidass (MLBD) publishing house.

This subseries documents Sharma’s unpublished works and includes book manuscripts, book proposals, articles, courses proposals, syllabus proposals, working material, and speech transcripts.

This sub series documents Sharma’s working materials which were used to create the corpus of his published and unpublished works and speeches. This reference material is not authored by Sharma and includes corrections or suggestions from colleagues or editors, and significantly annotated books.

This subseries contains proof of appointments (specifically public addresses) Sharma had and can include promotional material or confirmation via official correspondence.

This subseries documents the Global Congress World Religions after September 11 and contains promotional content, and recordings of the conferences (2006 and 2011).

This subseries contains the awards which Sharma has been awarded, and contains 5 plaques, 5 frame sheets, and 4 three dimensional awards.

This subseries consists of a collection of others' work on Sharma and his research, including published televised reports, books, article reviews, and newspaper articles.

This subseries contains Sharma’s correspondence between 1975 and 1979 and contains personal and professional correspondence during this time. Notable names include Arun Shourie, Ingeleier Kemp Asen, and Caroline and Sheridan Coombes.

This subseries consists of Sharma’s correspondence between 1980 and 1989 and contains personal, professional and ephemeral correspondence during this time. Notable names include Isabel and Ingeleier Kemp Asen, Susannah Heschel, Kathleen Dugan, Sheridan and Caroline Coombes, Laura Lopez, Betty Unterberger, Faye Sutherland, and Ratna Ghosh.

Subseries contains Sharma’s correspondence between 1990 and 1989 and contains personal, professional, and correspondence of an ephemeral nature. This includes letters after his 1990 accident. Notable names include Patrick Burke, Kathleen Dugan, Ingeleier Kemp Asen, David Bourke, Huston Smith, and Eric J. Sharpe.

Subseries consists of Sharma’s correspondence between 2000 and 2015 and contains correspondence of a professional and ephemeral nature. Notable names include Caroline Coombes, Huston Smith, Jeffrey J. Kripal, and Anita and Arun Shourie.

Subseries consists of photographs of Sharma taken during his academic career and includes 4 coloured photographs are from his address at Lehigh University’s 2014 Baccalaureate ceremony; 1 negative film and 1 colored photo print of a portrait taken for the 13th of April 1977 issue of the Australian newspaper; 1 colored photograph from Sharma’s implication as a respondent to a symposium in 1996, attached to a letter that offers context; 3 colored photograph taken in 1996 at the International Congress of Vedanta; an instant still photography taken at least after 1962; 2 colored photographs from his inauguration speech at the 1982’s ‘India Week’; 3 colored photographs from his participation to the 1996 India International Centre’s symposium; 3 colored photographs, taken at least during the 90s or the early 2000s, of himself in a theatre with friends and alone; 2 colored photographs from 1997 of Sharma seated with 17 guests in what seems like a seminar presentation; and 2 undated, colored photographs of a visit Sharma had in an Asian country attached to a letter that offers very minimal context.

Subseries consists of photographs of people with whom Arvind Sharma spent significant time. The subseries contains a black & white photograph of Caroline Coombes from 1982; a colored portrait of Caroline C.’s daughter, Sheridan, undated; a colored photograph of Susannah Heschel, author of On Being a Jewish Feminist: a Reader, and her family, taken around 1983; various photographs of Ingeleier, her children and her hometown; and a photograph of a bride and groom from a wedding Sharma attended in 1988.