 His mother died a few hours after his birth and his father for a year became a bereaved wanderer; he remarried a few years later and settled down.Buddhadeva was brought up and raised by his maternal grandparents Chintaharan Sinha and Swarnalata Sinha.He was schooled at the Dhaka Collegiate School in Dhaka, in addition to high schools in Comilla and Noakhali.