[2] Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, on the advice of his grand-uncle, Peary Charan Sarkar and his father's mentor, Raja Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee, the taluqdar of Shankarpore, United Provinces[dubious – discuss] and for some time assistant commissioner of Lucknow.
[5] He was admitted to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year, from 1874 to 1875, on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, having attended the lectures of Professor Max Mueller and Mr.
[7] His second son-in-law was Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh, ICS, Chief Justice of Jaipur and Kashmir and the only interim Chief Justice of the High Court of Rajasthan, his fifth daughter and son-in-law were the social reformer Saroj Nalini Dutt, MBE,[4] and Gurusaday Dutt, ICS, Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health, Government of Bengal, his sixth son-in-law was Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra De, IMS,[8] 2nd Indian Principal of the Calcutta Medical College, his seventh son-in-law was Captain (Hon.)
He served in districts where the rulers of erstwhile zamindari estates, such as Darbhanga and Dumrao, had a strong presence.
[19] He edited an English-Bengali dictionary[16] and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer (1910).
The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was published posthumously by Baini Prasad and also M. Hidayat Hosain.
[25] At the time of his centenary celebration in 1952, his second son, Basanta Kumar De, Esq., a senior officer of the BNR[26] took the initiative to publish in three articles sections of his reminiscences in the Calcutta Review.
This work was entrusted to Tapan Raychaudhuri, then of the Department of Islamic History and Culture of the University of Calcutta.
[27] In 2001, approximately 2,000 photographs of himself and his family members were given in loan by one of his grandsons, Barun De,[28][self-published source?
Later, when the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, CSSSC, Calcutta, the photographs too were deposited there.