About widow marriage he was very zealous.

One or two such marriages had been arranged, the widows being of low caste; but the credit of these was due, not to him, but to the contracting parties.

He had been of one mind with Tara Charan about breaking the chains of the zenana; both had said, "Let women come out." In this matter Debendra was very successful, but then this emancipation had in his mind a special meaning.
When Debendra, on his return from Govindpur, had thrown off his disguise and resumed his natural appearance, he took his seat in the next room.

His servant, having prepared the pain-relieving _huka_, placed the snake in front of him.

Debendra spent some time in the service of that fatigue-destroying goddess, Tobacco.