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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.