His father, Srish Chandra, was a deputy magistrate and a close friend and associate of Rabindranath Tagore.
He passed the Entrance examination in 1904, and proceeded to USA, along with the poet's son Rathindranath Tagore, to study agriculture at the University of Illinois.
[1][2] He graduated in agriculture and animal husbandry, and set up a dairy farm on return to India.
When the Palli Samgathana Vibhaga (Institute of Rural Reconstruction) was set up at Sriniketan in 1922, he was posted there.
In the absence of the director, Leonard Knight Elmhirst, he was given administrative charge of Sriniketan.