During his life and career in Australia, Hall was a fierce advocate for the British Indian community, and fought against racially motivated immigration restrictions.

He was trained in medicine at Bangalore College and entered the Subordinate Medical service in 1876, before serving in the Third Anglo-Burmese War.

[4] As a politically savvy and well educated man, Hall quickly grew in prestige as a practitioner and had several clients from Melbourne's high society.

Some of his patients included John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, Supreme Court Judge Hartley Williams and several journalists from The Age.

Despite living in Australia at a time when Asian immigrants were looked down upon by Australian society, he became a highly regarded teacher of white physicians.

[6] He trained his assistants as part of a two-year apprenticeship, and helped to establish a high standard of medical professionalism in the Australian massage industry.