This collection consists of professional materials relating to Raja Rao’s writing career and his career as a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. After his death and in the process of boxing his papers, Rao’s estate created detailed descriptions of much of the material; these descriptions are located in their corresponding boxes. The collection is roughly organized into four series: Series I. Correspondence; Series II. Professional Papers; Series III. Works; and Series IV. Works by Others. Series I contains both incoming and outgoing correspondence. Series II is made up of class notes, books read and annotated by Rao, and student papers. Access to student papers is restricted. Series III contains of drafts of novels, monographs, essays, speeches, and interviews. Many of the drafts have extensive annotations by Rao. Series IV contains published and unpublished articles and papers by others. Rao divided the articles into papers from the West and papers from India. Also included here are articles written by others about Rao.

Note: This collection has not been fully processed and Ransom Center staff have relied on the descriptions prepared by Rao’s estate that accompany the material. The descriptions are included in the boxes to which they correspond. Not all boxes have such descriptions. Loose items were foldered during initial processing, but not organized, and the collection as a whole remains largely in the order in which it arrived at the Ransom Center.