Devi Dutt Sharma masanin Indiya ne kuma marubucin adabin Dogri wanda aka fi sani da rubuce-rubucensa kan yarukan Himalayan, al'adu da tarihin ƙabila. Gwamnatin Indiya ta girmama Sharma a cikin 2011, tare da lambar yabo ta farar hula ta huɗu ta Padma Shri . An haifi Devi Dutt Sharma a ranar 23 ga Oktoba 1924 a gundumar Kumaon ta jihar Uttarakhand ta Indiya. Bayan ya gama digirinsa na biyu (MA) daga Jami'ar Agra, sai ya sami digiri na uku, ya kammala karatun digirin digirgir a jami'ar Banares Hindu da kuma DLitt daga Jami'ar Panjab, Chandigarh . An yaba masa da littattafai 28, takardun bincike 200 da kuma gudummawa ga kundin bincike 56. kuma an fi saninsa da aikin juz'i na takwas, Tarihin Al'adu na Al'adu na Uttarakhand . Ya kammala kundin kundin littattafai uku, Gyan Kosh wanda ke jiran fitowar sa. Wani tsohon farfesa a Sanskrit na jami’ar Panjab, Chandigarh, Sharma an karrama shi da kyautuka da dama kamar su Life Time Achievement Award ta Jami’ar Garhwal, Srinagar.