His book, Treatise on Problems of Maxima and Minima, was promoted by mathematician Augustus De Morgan.

Writing in his preface to the treatise, De Morgan states that Ramchundra was born in about 1821 in Panipat to Sunder Lal, a Kayasth of Delhi.

De Morgan was so impressed that he arranged for the book to be republished in London under his own supervision, and in general undertook to bring Ramchundra's work to the notice of the broader European scientific community.

Quoting De Morgan, from the preface of the treatise: On examining this work I saw in it, not merely merit worthy of encouragement, but merit of a peculiar kind, the encouragement of which, as it appeared to me, was likely to promote native effort towards the restoration of the native mind in India.Charles Muses, in an article in the Mathematical Intelligencer (1998) called Ramchundra "De Morgan's Ramanujan".

He was mystified why, in spite of De Morgan's efforts to make this "remarkable Hindu algebraist known, he does not appear in most texts on history of mathematics.