Born and brought up in the holy city of Allahabad, Nalinji made untiring efforts towards the teaching and recognition of the Slide Guitar during 1940.
Nalinji never sought glory or limelight and continued to teach students in his humble home at Tagoretown in Allahabad till his last breath.
Sri Nalin Mazumdar, for the first time, played Hindustani Classical Music on Hawaiian Guitar about 60 years back.
It was really a difficult task for him, and he had to face lot of problems before the audience who were not at all interested to listen classical music on Hawaiian Guitar.
Nalinji was the guru of Dr. Shivanath Bhattacharya of Varanasi and the disciple of Late Baba Allauddin Khan Saheb (of Maihar Gharana).