Chowdhury Moyezuddin Biwshash

Chowdhury Moyezuddin Biwshash (1840–1923) was a Bengali Muslim merchant and aristocrat from Biswas Bari in Faridpur District, British India. Belonging to a zamindar clan of the area, he built a personal fortune of landholdings in Bengal, the Punjab and Arabia.^[1]

Moyezuddin in Biswas Bari circa 1899

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Career

Moyezuddin supported the Indian National Congress.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

His sons and grandchildren engaged in Bengali Muslim politics in the era of the Raj and Pakistan, and in independent Bangladesh.^{[citation needed]} Chowdhury Abdallah Zaheeruddin(eldest son) served as a federal minister of the Pakistani government, while Enayet Hossain Chowdhury (another son) was a member of Pakistan's National Assembly in the 1960s.^{[citation needed]} His second son, Yusuf Ali Chowdhury (commonly known as Mohan Mia) was a figure in the Muslim League and an influential kingmaker in East Pakistani politics; he also sided with the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.^[2]