
The noted Bengal poet laureate, Kazi Nazrul Islam also spent time in their family home in Comilla in the early '20s. Dey, Khalifa Badal Khan and Allauddin Khan to Agartala. This was followed by training from Khalifa Badal Khan, the sarangi maestro, and Ustad Allauddin Khan, the sarodist. Dey from 1925 to 1930 thereafter in 1932 he came under the tutelage of Bhishmadev Chattopadhyay, who was only three years his senior. He started his formal music education by training under the musician K. Burman left for Kolkata to start an MA in Calcutta University, which he did not finish as music got the better of him for good. He then got admitted at Victoria College, Comilla, which is presently Comilla Victoria Government College from where he passed his IA in 1922 and then BA in 1924. He completed his Matriculation in 1920 at the age of 14. Burman's father took him from Kumar Boarding and admitted him at Yusuf School in Comilla, before he was admitted in Class V in Comilla Zilla School. Burman's father, Raja Nabadweepchandra Deb Burman noticed the teachers were more busy with pampering the sons of the nobility than educating them. It was a boarding school in the likes of Harrow and Eton for sons of the royalty and the very rich. Burman's first school was at Kumar Boarding in Agartala, Tripura.

His mother died when he was just two years of age. Sachin was the youngest of the five sons of his parents, who had nine children in all. Burman was born on 1 October 1906, in Comilla, Bengal Presidency (in present-day Bangladesh) to Rajkumari Nirmala Devi, the royal princess of Manipur and Mahamanyabar Rajkumar Nabadwipchandra Dev Burman of Tripura, son of Maharaja Ishanachandra Manikya Dev Burman, the Maharaja of Tripura.
