Sharma was born in India. He served as a Reader at Sokoto University in Nigeria, West Africa for 12 years, then went to Rajasthan, India and worked there as a Principal of two Colleges of Education for seven years. He visited Willamette University in Salem, Oregon as a Visiting Scholar for one year when he was working as a Professor of Education at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education at Vidyabhawan, University of Udaipur, India. He retired in 1991. He is currently living in the U.S.