[3] Dwijendralal Ray was born in Krishnanagar, Nadia, in the modern-day Indian state of West Bengal, on 19 July 1863.

[4] From his mother's side, he was a descendant of Vaishnava ascetic Advaita Acharya, one of the apostles of the medieval Bengali saint Shri Chaitanya.

"His description of the sea-voyage and his keen observation on the manners, customs, food-habits and dresses of British people" was serialised in a weekly named Pataka and later published by his brothers as Bileter Patra (Letters from England).While in England, he received the news of his beloved parents' death.

[7] On his return from England, Ray was appointed as a Deputy Magistrate in 1886 and worked in the Departments of Survey and Settlement, Excise, Land Records and Agriculture, Administration and Judiciary in different parts of Bengal, Bihar and Central Province.

[5] In 1887, Ray married Surabala Devi, daughter of Pratap Chandra Majumdar, a renowned homeopath physician.

In 1890, he was transferred to Kajlagarh as the land settlement officer of the Sujamutha division of Medinipur, he diligently worked and even led a peasant protest against the excessive tax rates.

In 1890, while working for the government at Kajlagarh, in Purba Medinipur he clashed with the Bengal Governor on the issue of peasant land rights and tithing obligations.

It was during the time he wrote several patriotic songs, including "Dhana Dhanya Pushpa Bhara", that are still immensely popular today.