from the University of London (School of Oriental Studies) with a thesis on rhetoric (alaMkAra) in Sanskrit poetry.
[1] Upon return to India, he joined Dhaka University, initially in English, and then in the Sanskrit and Bengali departments.
His work on the history of the Vaishnava movement in Bengal, along with critical manuscript analyses of several original texts, are very well respected.
A fellow of the Royal Astatic Soctety of Great Britinm and Ireland (1954), he edited the Udyoga Parva (1940) and Drona Parva (1958) volumes in the Critical Edition of the Mahabharata from the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.
[4] He was president of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad (1950, 1956),[2] and also wrote several popular translations of Sanskrit tales.