[3] The family originally hailed from Chandannagar, Hooghly District.

[4] Baral was born in 1860 in Chorbagan, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India.

He worked as an accounts clerk in the Delhi and London Bank.

[3] Sisir Kumar Das described Boral's poetry as meditative and thoughtful.

[6] According to Narayan Choudhuri, he wrote some of the best examples of elegiac poems in Indian literature.