A History of the Dvaita School of Vedanta and Its Literature

B. N. K. Sharma was a scholar of Indian philosophy, and this academic book, published by Motilal Banarsidass, a respected publisher of Indology and Sanskrit scholarship, is a history of the Dvaita school of Vedanta founded by Madhva, tracing its literature and development from primary Sanskrit sources. Its strength is Sharma's deep direct engagement with the school's own textual tradition across its historical development, rather than a secondhand summary through a rival school's characterization of Dvaita positions. Its limit is that Sharma wrote from within considerable sympathy for the Dvaita tradition he documented, so a fully neutral comparative assessment of Dvaita against rival Vedanta schools like Advaita is better drawn from a source that treats all the schools with equal distance.