In Japanĭhan Gopal's family sent him to Japan to study industrial machinery and textiles in 1910. Dhan Gopal later wrote a memoir about Jadu Gopal, titled My Brother's Face. Jadu Gopal was subsequently jailed without trial from 1923 to 1927. Here, in the circle of his brother Jadugopal Mukherjee's friends, he came in contact with the ideas of the Bengal resistance. However, disillusioned with the traditional role and impatient of the backward-looking element in strict Hindu society, he left the ascetic life to study at the University of Calcutta. Caste details Dhan Gopal's induction into the Brahminical tradition of his ancestors, and his experiences of wandering for a year as an ascetic, as was the custom for boys in strict priestly households. Dhan Gopal describes his childhood and adolescence in the first part ('Caste') of his autobiography, Caste and Outcast (1923).
His father was a lawyer who gave up his practice due to ill health and studied music instead, while also officiating as priest at the village temple. Dhan Gopal Mukerji was born in a bengali brahmin family on 6 July 1890, in a village near Calcutta on the edge of a jungle called Kajangal.
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