Education
University of Cambridge. Ravenshaw University.
University of Cambridge. Ravenshaw University.
He was a Botanist, academician and former Vice chancellor of Utkal University. He worked as a principal in Ravenshaw University (formerly Ravenshaw College), Cuttack,Pro Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and Vice-Chancellor of Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. The "Parija Library" of the university is named after him.
He was working as a scientist for agricultural development in Orissa.
Fearnsides Scholarship (1918), Trinity College, Cambridge, a scholarship to encourage clinical research in the field of organic diseases of the nervous system.
He was an elected member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly.