 He also served as the editor of multiple contemporary Bengali authors and published numerous Middle Bengali classics—Chaitanya Mangala by Jayananda, Krishna Prema Tarangini by Raghunath Bhagavat Acharya, Kashi-Parikrama et al—via Bangiya Sahitya Parishad.Nagendranath was also nominated to the Textbook Committee.In 1884, he published "Shabdendu Mahakosh", an English-Bangla dictionary and in the process came in close contacts with Anandakrishna Basu (a grandson of Raja Radhakanta Deb and Hara Prasad Shastri, who persuaded him to join The Asiatic Society.