 He collected all the Arabic, Persian and Urdu books written in Bengal for more than 40 years and published a catalogue titled "Sulasa Ghusala".He compiled the correspondence of Mirza Ghalib and Khwaja Haider Jan Shayek, a 19th-century Urdu poet from Dhaka, in "Inshaye Shayek".He was the founder secretary of "Anjuman-e-Urdu", an organisation established to provide a forum for Urdu in East Bengal and Assam.