After completing his initial education in Dhaka Collegiate School, he spent three and a half years in Presidency College, Kolkata before moving to University of Edinburgh on Gilchrist Scholarship for higher studies.

He was instrumental in implementing the Special Marriage Act 1872 in the Hyderabad State, which was already in vogue in British India.

Aghorenath was a prominent member of the intellectuals' collective of Hyderabad who debated on social political and literary topics.

[9] Back in Hyderabad Aghorenath continued his political activism and hence was forced to retire early and relocate to Kolkata.

During his absence Varada Sundari was an inmate at the Bharat Ashram, an educational centre run by Keshab Chandra Sen. She accompanied him to Hyderabad in 1878.

Youngest daughter Suhasini was a political activist and first female member of the Indian Communist party.

Aghorenath's eldest son Virendranath was a leftist and was in the British Crime register for alleged revolutionary activities.