 Calcutta in Bengal became the capital of the Indian Empire in 1858, himself reaching there before 1868 and serving the Maharajas of Natore in Natore.He was given land grants by the British administrators as a lord ("Zamindar") of the villages in East Bengal and served as the "Mridha" or the Minister to the Maharaja of Rajshahi under who he was subinfeudated.With the decline of the Natore Zamindari, he received areas and villages formerly under the Hindu ruling family.