After Retirement
He retired from the civil service in 1910. After retirement he became a Vice President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and translated and edited in two volumes Nizamuddin Ahmad's Tabaqat-i-Akbari. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was published posthumously by Dr.Hidayat Hosain. This book gives a general history of India from the Mohammadan conquest up to 1594.
After retirement, he was also appointed as a Member of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.
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