Chowdhury Moyezuddin Biwshash

Chowdhury Moyezuddin Biwshash was a Bengali Muslim merchant and aristocrat from 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.

Career

Moyezuddin supported the Indian National Congress.

Personal life

His sons and grandchildren engaged in Bengali Muslim politics in the era of the Raj and Pakistan, and in independent Bangladesh. Chowdhury Abdallah Zaheeruddin served as a federal minister of the Pakistani government, while Enayet Hossain Chowdhury was a member of Pakistan's National Assembly in the 1960s. His second son, Yusuf Ali Chowdhury, 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.