Surendra Shivdas Barlingay (20 July 1919 – 19 December 1997) Nagpur, India) was an Indian logician and Marathi writer.
Barlingay was one of the founders and a joint secretary of All India Student Congress and of Rashtriya Yuvak Sangh.
Barlingay was also the founding secretary and sometime vice-president of the Nutan Vidya Samiti and New Science College, Hyderabad.
Barlingay was the first Indian Professor of Philosophy and Culture at Zagreb (Yugoslavia).
The philosophy community of India recognised Barlingay's contributions by electing him General President of the Darshan Parishad, Ranchi (1975), Indian Philosophical Congress, Madras 1979.
Barlingay was a U. G. C. National Lecturer (1974) and a fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Simla (1976–77).
Barlingay was the founding editor of Deshbandhu (a daily) and Inquilab (a weekly) of Nagpur.
Phenomenologically Barlingay describes the structures of awareness, particularly its self-reflective and self-conscious forms.
By imagination, Barlingay discovers the basic structure which gave rise to a particular concept and by critique he scrutinises his discovery for correctness.
In Barlingay's honour the Indian Council of Philosophical Research organised a three-day programme called "Meet the Philosopher: Surendra S. Barlingay" in March 1993 at the University of Delhi.
Upon Barlingay reaching sixty years of age on 20 July 1979, a congratulatory volume '"Philosophy: Theory and Action" was prepared.
To mark Barlingay's role as a freedom fighter, he was interviewed by the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in 1993 as part of its Oral history Project.
The department of Philosophy, University of Pune expressed publishing three of his volumes, one in Marathi and two in Hindi.