To acknowledge the contribution of Dwijendranath to Bengali literature, he was elected President of Bangiya Sahitya Parishad from 1897 to 1900. He presided over the 1914 session of the Bangiya Sahitya Sammelan.
He was a Zamindar who always remained absent from his Zamandari, but in 1873, he advocated drastic action for "the restoration of order and tranquility " against peasants participating in the Pabna disturbances, which was severely curtailing his income.
Dwijendranath kept himself always busy with experiments of various types. He was a pioneer in the field of Bengali short hand and even coded it in the form of poetry. He pioneered the use of notations (swaralipi) for Bengali music. The only other person who could claim credit for this was Kshetramahon Goswami, assistant to Raja Shourindramohan Tagore. In 913, he wrote a book Boxometry, the construction of boxes.He was adept in folding paper into different shapes.
He was secretary of the Adi Brahmo Samaj from 1866 to 1871 and used to serve as Acharya or minister for Upasanas or Brahmo Prayers. He had accompanied his father to Dakha when Dhaka Brahmo Samaj was in its formative years under the leadership of Braja Sundar Mitra.
Closely associated with Hindu Mela, he was its secretary and composed patriotic songs for it. One of its devotional song , karo tomar naam gaan, jata din rahe dehe pran (sing his praise as long as there is life in the body) has been sung with the prayers on 7th of Poush for many years. He wrote many other devotional songs broadly classified as Brahmasangeet, sung with prayers of Brahmo Samaj. One popular patriotic song he composed for the Hindu Mela was "malina mukhochandrama Bharat tomari" (pale is your face, o India).
