Upon his return to India in June 1875, Banerjee became an English professor at the Metropolitan Institution, the Free Church Institution and at the Rippon College, now Surendranath College, founded by him in 1882  and he inspired his students with a new spirit of nascent Indian nationalism.
Upon his return to India in June 1875, Banerjee became an English professor at the Metropolitan Institution, the Free Church Institution and at the Rippon College, now Surendranath College, which he had founded, and he stirred his students with a new spirit of nascent Indian patriotism.