[1][2] He received several awards including the Padma Shri (1989), the Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship and the Kala Ratna for his contribution to art.
He completed his primary and secondary school education in Valod and was an active member of student union.
[8] He and Eberhard Fischer (art historian) collaborated on several craft documentation and ethographic research studies.
[9] His work caught the public eye, and by 1965 he had held several one-man shows in Kolkata and Mumbai.
[7] Over the years, he carried out extensive field research and documentation on rural and tribal arts and crafts, traditions and folk lore.