After having completed his education abroad. Jagadis chose the teaching
of Science as his vocation. He was appointed as Professor of Physical
Science at the Presidency College, Calcutta. He joined the service on
the 7th January, 1885. Although he was appointed in Class IV of the
_then_ Bengal Educational Service, (which afterwards merged in the
present Indian Educational Service), he was not admitted to the full
scale of pay of the Service. He, being an Indian, was allowed to draw
only two-thirds the pay of his grade. This humiliating distinction was,
however, removed in his case, on the 21st September 1903, when the
bureaucracy could not any longer ignore the pressure of enlightened
opinion that was brought to bear on it.