[1][2] Bhattacharya was born in 1908, to a Bengali Hindu family in the village of Singerkach in Bishwanath, Sylhet District, Eastern Bengal and Assam.
After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, Bhattacharya moved to Calcutta and joined the Jadavpur University as a UGC-nominated retired teacher in the Bengali Department.
[5] Bhattacharya dedicated his life to literary research and amassed a vast collection of rare manuscripts, books and periodicals in Bengali.
The collection has over 10,000 volumes of books, over 1200 journals, letters and documents, and over 8,000 manuscripts in Bengali (including Sylhet Nagri), Assamese, Sanskrit, Hindi, Persian, Arabic and Meitei.
[5] Among his 26 published works (written and/or edited) are ‘Srihatter Bhattasangit’ (Bhatta Ballads of Sylhet); ‘Bangla Puthir Talika Samannay’ (Collection of Bengali Puthis), ‘Gopal Thakurer Padabali’ (Gopal Thakur's Poetry), ‘Bangla Abhidhan Granther Parichay’ (Background of Bengali dictionary books) and many more.