Harish Chandra Sarin (1914–1997) was an Indian civil servant, writer and the defence secretary of India.
[5] Sarin was born on 27 May 1914 at Deoria in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and was an alumnus of Cambridge University.
[1] He held the position of the Defence Secretary past his retirement age.
Sarin, who was married to Pushpa Rathore, died on 27 January 1997.
[6] He was also a recipient of the First Special IMF Award of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation in 1993.