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Mukherjee was a member of the 1917-1919 Sadler Commission, presided over by Michael Ernest Sadler, which inquired into the state of Indian education. He was three times president of the Asiatic Society,and in 1910 of the Imperial (now National) Library Council. He donated his entire personal collection of 80,000 books to the Library and it is arranged in a separate section. He was the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914. He was learned in Pali, French and Russian, and was awarded the titles of Saraswati and Shastravachaspati by the pandits of Bengal for his service to Indian education.
Mukherjee was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) in June 1909 and knighted in December 1911.
The epitaph beneath his marble bust at the Ashutosh Museum of Arts at the University of Calcutta reads:
| “ | His noblest achievement, surest of them all/ A place for his mother tongue --- in step mother's hall. | ” |
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