[3] He also wrote articles that were published in Ishwar Chandra Gupta's newspaper Sambad Prabhakar.
He was founder-president British Indian Association in 1851, a position he held till his death.
[2] He helped David Hare and funded founding of the Hindu College in Calcutta.
Although sati was not practised in his own family, he came forward to defend the custom when the Government contemplated its abolition.
When Lord William Bentinck's government had finally abolished sati by regulation in December 1829, Radhakanta Deb, along with his conservative Hindu friends, was the leader a society called Dharma Sabha (founded by his father Gopi Mohun Deb), protested against this measure by presenting a petition to the Governor-General on behalf of the orthodox section of the Hindu community.