Abdur Rasheed Choudhury
আব্দুর রশীদ চৌধুরী
Member of Indian Legislative Assembly
In office
1934–1944
PresidentSir Abdur Rahim
Preceded byAbdul Matin Chaudhary
Succeeded byAli Asghar Khan
ConstituencyAssam (Muslim)
Personal details
Born12 July 1897
Dargapasha, Sylhet, Assam Province, British India (now, Sunamganj, Bangladesh)
Died4 March 1944(1944-03-04) (aged 46)
Sylhet, British India (now, Bangladesh)
Spouses
  • Johar Begum
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1912; died 1920)​
  • ​
    ​
    (m. 1926⁠–⁠1944)​
Children10 Including Humayun & Faruk

Abdur Rasheed Choudhury (Bengali: আব্দুর রশীদ চৌধুরী; died 1944) was a Bengali politician from Sylhet.

Early life

Choudhury was born to Bengali Muslim parents from Dargapasha, Sunamganj.[1]

Career

Chowdhury and Abdul Matin Chaudhary together established Minar Printing and Publishing Limited on 14 July 1932 which published the weekly newspaper Jugabheri.[2] Before that, he worked as an Extra Assistant Commissioner in Sylhet.[3] The editor of the newspaper was Moqbul Hussain Choudhury.[4] Chowdhury was a tea planter and owned Sirajnagar tea garden.[3][5] He also owned Hamdard Tea Company Limited and Dilkusha tea estate.[6]

Chowdhury served in the Central Legislative Assembly of India in the 1940s as an independent politician from the Muslim block of Assam.[7][8]

Personal life

Choudhury was married to Begum Serajunnessa Choudhury (died 1974) when she was 16 as his second wife.[9][3] He had three sons from his first marriage and seven from his second.[3] His son, Humayun Rashid Choudhury (died 10 July 2001),[10] was a diplomat and later the speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad (parliament of Bangladesh).[3][11] His other son, Faruk Rashid Chowdhury, served as the Finance Minister of Bangladesh.[3][12]

Children

He had 10 children, among them:

  • Humayun Rasheed Chowdhury
  • Faruk Rasheed Chowdhury
  • Zeba Rasheed Chowdhury
  • Jahanzeb Chowdhury

Death

Choudhury died in 1944.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Humayun Rashid Choudhury". Dargapasha Union Parishad (in Bengali).
  2. ↑ Shibly, Atful Hye (2011). Abdul Matin Chaudhury (1895-1948): Trusted Lieutenant of Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Juned Ahmed Choudhury. ISBN 978-984-33-2323-1.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Al-Mahmood, Syed Zain (25 June 2010). "Tribute: A Legacy of Love". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  4. ↑ Maslog, Crispin C. (1985). 5 Successful Asian Community Newspapers. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre. pp. 15–17. ISBN 978-9971-905-21-7.
  5. ↑ Correspondent, Our (1998-01-28). "Many tea gardens yet to pay huge land tax". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  6. ↑ "Hamdard Tea Company, Limited in Dhaka | Online-store Hamdard Tea Company, Limited Dhaka (Bangladesh)". 1002-bd.all.biz. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  7. ↑ The Parliamentarian: Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth. General Council of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. 1942. p. 365.
  8. ↑ Assembly, India Legislature Legislative (1944). The Legislative Assembly Debates: (Official Report). Government of India Press.
  9. ↑ Biographical Encyclopedia of Pakistan. Biographical Research Institute, Pakistan. 1960. p. 729.
  10. ↑ Karim, Nasrine R. "Lest we forget: Humayun Rasheed Choudhury". archive.thedailystar.net. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  11. ↑ Times, Special to the New York (1986-09-23). "MAN IN THE NEWS; U.N. ENTHUSIAST AT ASSEMBLY HELM: HUMAYAN RASHEED CHOUDHURY". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  12. ↑ Who's who in Asian and Australasian Politics. Bowker-Saur. 1991. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-86291-593-3.
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