 He was born in 1905 at Baler Sawai Madhopur district in Rajasthan state in India.He learnt painting at the Maharaja School of Arts in Jaipur where the artist Asit Kumar Haldar was Principal.Later he went to Kolkata where he absorbed further influences from the Bengal School, especially the artist Shailendra Nath De whom he considered his guru

His first exhibition was held in 1928 at Fine Arts & Crafts Society, Calcutta and thereafter many in other major cities of India.