Dr.Sen started his long and illustrious career in teaching from Daulatpur College and moved subsequently to Prabhatkumar College in Contai and thereafter to Vidyasagar College in Siuri.He completed his Ph.D from Calcutta University and joined the MIL Department of Delhi University as a lecturer in Bengali. He was selected as a fellow in the prestigious Indian Institute of Advanced Studies,Simla. It was during this period that he carried out his outstanding work on the Bengali carya versification.
In the early seventies he shifted his base from Delhi to Bengal to join the fledgling Bengali Department of Kalyani University as the Head of the Department. It was during this period that some of his best works were produced and the Bengali Department of Kalyani University came to be recognised as one of the best in the state.
He will be remembered for his pioneering research work in the field of Bengali prosody.His specilazation was Bengali Prosody studies in particular and meter studies in general.However,his interest in early Bengali literature encompasses not only Caryagiti,but also Srikrishnakirtan,and certainly Vaisnava literature.
