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'''Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad''', [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy at Lancaster University.<ref name=lanc/> His research focuses on Indian religions – Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism – and comparative [[phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]], [[epistemology]], [[metaphysics]] and philosophy of religion. His studies include the conceptual roots of contemporary beliefs, politics and conflict in religious context, and the religious identities of South Asian diaspora in the United Kingdom.<ref name=lanc>{{cite web|url=http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ppr/about-us/people/chakravarthi-ram-prasad |title=Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Politics, Philosophy & Religion |publisher=Lancaster University |date= |accessdate=2016-11-29}}</ref> He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017.<ref name=crpba>[https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/chakravarthi-ram-prasad-FBA Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA], The British Academy, UK (2018)</ref><br />
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==Education==<br />
Ram-Prasad is an alumnus of Sri Sathya Sai Institute, and earned a masters and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ppr/undergraduate/religious-studies/meet-our-tutors/professor-chakravarthi-ram-prasad/ |title=Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Politics, Philosophy & Religion |publisher=Lancaster University |date= |accessdate=2019-06-17}}</ref><br />
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==Career and Work==<br />
Ram-Prasad is the Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at the [[Lancaster University]]. He was the Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2009–14), and a member of the Academic Advisory Council at the [[Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies]]. He has been a regular contributor to the BBC Radio 4's ''Beyond Belief and Sunday Programme'' in the United Kingdom.<ref>[https://www.bloomsbury.com/author/ram-prasad-chakravarthi Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad], Bloomsbury Academic, UK</ref><br />
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Ram-Prasad has published eight books and some fifty peer-reviewed articles on Indian religions, comparative religions (Hindu-Christian, Buddhism in India and China), contemporary Indian politics and religion, multiculturalism and British society, and comparative political philosophy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/chakravarthi-ramprasad(02068fdc-a65d-4a1f-982f-659e6620190f).html |title=Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Politics, Philosophy & Religion |publisher=Lancaster University |date= |accessdate=2019-06-17}}</ref> His studies have included religious literature in Sanskrit, Pali and Tamil.<ref name=crpba/><br />
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In a review of Ram-Prasad's award-winning book ''Divine Self, Human Self'' based on the ''[[Bhagavad Gita]]'', the Cambridge University scholar Ankur Barua states, "Ram-Prasad skilfully engages [[Adi Sankara|Śaṁkara]] and [[Ramanuja|Rāmānuja]] in conversations over classical Vedantic themes of selfhood, being, and agency" to exegetically and hermeneutically explain how these two influential Hindu scholars interpreted the same text to reach two views of ''Self'' (Atman) in [[Hindu philosophy]].<ref>{{cite journal | last=Barua | first=Ankur | title=Book Review:Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gītā Commentaries | journal=Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies | publisher=Butler University | volume=29 | issue=1 | year=2016 | doi=10.7825/2164-6279.1638 | pages=79–81| doi-access=free }}</ref><br />
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==Honours==<br />
His book ''"Divine Self, Human Self"'' was the winner of the Best Book 2011–15, by the [[Society for Hindu Christian Studies]].<br />
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In July 2017, Ram-Prasad was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] (FBA), the United Kingdom's [[national academy]] for the humanities and social sciences.<ref>{{cite web|title=Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/elections-british-academy-celebrate-diversity-uk-research|website=British Academy|accessdate=29 July 2017|date=2 July 2017}}</ref><br />
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== Selected publications ==<br />
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*''[https://books.google.com/books?id=oP-ADAAAQBAJ Knowledge and Liberation in Classical Indian Thought]'' (Palgrave, 2001), {{ISBN|978-1-4039-1373-9}}<br />
*''Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics: An outline of Indian non-realism'' (Routledge, 2002), {{ISBN|978-1-3150-2939-9}}<br />
*''Eastern Philosophy'' (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005)<br />
*{{cite book |last=Ram-Prasad |first=Chakravarthi |year=2013 |title=Divine self, human self : the philosophy of being in two Gita commentaries |publisher=Bloomsbury|isbn=978-1441176813}}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Ram-Prasad |first=Chakravarthi |year=2007 |title=Indian philosophy and the consequences of knowledge : themes in ethics, metaphysics and soteriology |publisher=Aldershot, England |isbn=9780754686767}}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Ram-Prasad |first=Chakravarthi |year=2006 |title=India : life, myth and art |publisher=Duncan Baird |isbn=1844832872}}, which has been translated into French, Polish and Finnish<br />
*{{cite book|author1=Irina Kuznetsova|author2=Jonardon Ganeri|author3=Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad|title=Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue: Self and No-Self|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZmgGDAAAQBAJ |year=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-12193-0}}<br />
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;Journal articles and chapters<br />
*{{cite journal | last=Ram-Prasad | first=Chakravarthi | title=A Classical Indian Philosophical Perspective on Ageing and the Meaning of Life | journal=Ageing and Society | publisher=Cambridge University Press | volume=15 | issue=1 | year=1995 | doi=10.1017/s0144686x00002105 | pages=1–36| s2cid=145798344 }}<br />
*{{cite journal | last=Ram-Prasad | first=C. | title=Knowledge and Action I: Means to the Human End in Bhātta Mīmāmsā and Advaita Vedānta | journal=Journal of Indian Philosophy | publisher=Springer Nature | volume=28 | issue=1 | year=2000 | doi=10.1023/a:1004744313963 | pages=1–24| s2cid=170635199 }}<br />
*{{cite journal | last=Ram-Prasad | first=C. | title=Knowledge and Action II: Means to the Human End in Bhātta Mīmāmsā and Advaita Vedānta | journal=Journal of Indian Philosophy | publisher=Springer Nature | volume=28 | issue=1 | year=2000 | doi=10.1023/a:1004776719414 | pages=25–41| s2cid=171038504 }}<br />
*{{cite book | last=Ram-Prasad | first=C. | title=Religion and International Relations | chapter=Hindu Nationalism and the International Relations of India | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK | year=2000 | doi=10.1057/9781403916594_7 | pages=140–197| isbn=978-1-349-27846-6 }}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* ''Lakshmi'', BBC Radio 4 [[In Our Time (radio series)|In Our Time]], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wtggv link]. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad on the panel with [[Jessica Frazier]] and [[Jacqueline Suthren-Hirst]].<br />
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