PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
family
claims
descent from Iraqi Hazrat Ghausul Azam who came to Eastern
Bengal from Baghdad and received the estate of Dhanbari
during the time of the Padshah Jahangir in the 1600s.
Hazrat Mohammad Shah, a saint (Pir) of Dhanbari also comes
from this family. The title of Nawab was granted to the
zamindar in 1803. The palace, mosque and the entire
complex has been formed into the Nawab Ali Hasan Ali Royal
Resort, after the Zamindari system was abolished. It is
now a heritage site used as a tourist attraction in the
area. A museum in Bogra houses family antique furniture,
books and appliances. Estate holders were.....
- Syed Janao Ali
Choudhury, Zamindar of Bogra, married a
daughter of Khan Bahadur Muhammad Ali Khan Chowdhury,
a zamindar of Natore, and had issue, two sons.
- Nawab Syed Abdus Sobhan Choudhury (qv)
- The Honourable Nawab Bahadur Sir Syed Nawab Ali
Choudhury Khan Bahadur (qv)
- Nawab Syed Abdus
Sobhan Choudhury, Zamindar of Bogra, he owned
extensive landed property in the district of Bogra in
Bengal and also in Bihar; he was the founder of the
Tahwmissia Female Hospital; appointed Honorary
Magistrate, Bogra; he was granted the title of Nawab
on 2nd January 1893 as a personal distinction; married
1stly, (name unknown),
died 1890, ?married (unequally) 2ndly, Mozelle Cohen,
a Jewish lady who converted to Islam, and had issue.
He died 2nd July 1915 (#1).
- Nawabzadi Syeda (name
unknown), married The Honourable Nawab
Bahadur Sir Syed Nawab Ali Choudhury Khan Bahadur
(qv)
- Syeda (name
unknown) (by Mozelle Cohen), born 1891.
- Syed Habibur Rahman Chowdhury (by Mozelle Cohen),
born 1893.
- The Honourable
Nawab Bahadur Sir Syed NAWAB ALI CHOUDHURY Khan
Bahadur, Zamindar of Bogra-Dhanbari
1915/1929, born 1863, son of Syed Janao Ali Choudhury,
and his wife, a daughter of Khan Bahadur Muhammad Ali
Khan Chowdhury, a zamindar of Natore; a founder of
Dhaka University, the Senate Bhaban is named after
him, educated at the Rajshahi Collegiate School and St
Xaviers College, Calcutta; he served as Honorary
Magistrate of Mymensingh, Municipal Commissioner of
Mymensingh town and a member of the District Board of
Mymensingh; Member of the Eastern Bengal and Assam
Legislative Council from 1906 to 1911, of the Bengal
Legislative Council from 1912 to 1916 and of the
Imperial Legislative Council of India from 1916 to
1920, he was made a Minister in March 1925; Member of
the Governor's Executive Council; Member of the Bengal
Legislative Council 1920/1925 and Vice-president of
the Bengal Legislative Council; Member of the
Governor's Executive Council 1925/1929;
Vice-President of the All-India Muslim league;
President of the central national Muhamadan
association; Trustee of the Aligarh MAO College;
Honorary Secretary of the Provincial Muslim League of
Eastern Bengal and Assam and later of Bengal;
President of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League;
Member of the Calcutta University Senate; Member of
the Dhaka University Committee; Member of the
Governing Body of the Presidency College; he was
granted the titles of Khan Bahadur in 1906, Nawab in 1911,
made C.I.E. in 1918 and Nawab Bahadur in 1924 by the British
Government; married the daughter of Nawab Abdus Sobhan
of Bogra, and had issue. He died 17th April 1929 at
his residence, The
Eden Castle at Darjeeling and was buried at
Dhanbari.
- Nawabzada Syed Altaf Ali Choudhury, an Honorary
Magistrate and Justice of the Peace, in Barisal of
British India. Stood for the Bengal election (upper
house of the parliament) and was elected under the
Krishak Proja Party (Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Huq);
married and had issue.
- Nawabzada Muhammad Ali Chowdhury (qv)
- Nawabzada Syed Hasan Ali Choudhury, former
Minister of Commerce and Industry and a Member of
Parliament.
- Nawabzada MUHAMMAD
ALI Chowdhury, Zamindar of Bogra-Dhanbari
1929/1963, born 19th October 1909, educated at
Hastings House in Calcutta, and at Calcutta Madrassah,
and then at Presidency College of Calcutta University;
he served as the chairman of the Bogra municipality,
chairman of the District Board. Member of the Waqf
Board in Calcutta. Awarded the title of Khan Bahadur
by the British (later relinquished to protest against
The British rule). In 1937, he was elected to the
legislature of undivided Bengal in Calcutta from the
Muslim League. Became parliamentary secretary to the
chief minister to Sir Nizamuddin of Dhaka (link here).
Served as minister of health, minister of finance and
minister of local self-government in the cabinet of
chief minister of Bengal, Hussein Suhrawardy. Elected
to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan from Bogra in
1947. Became the first High Commissioner of Pakistan
in Canada in July 1949 and then, the Ambassador to the
United States. Attended the Coronation of Queen
Elizabeth II in 1952. Became Prime Minister of
Pakistan in April 1953, resigned under Sahibzada Major
General Iskandar Mirza. Served as ambassador to Japan
in Tokyo, Member and later Chairman of U.N.C.U.R.K.,
the United Nations Committee for the Re-unification
and Rehabilitation of Korea. Elected by a landslide
and preceded to Islamabad in the 1962 elections under
General Ayub Khan under whom he served as de facto
Chief Minister of East Pakistan, the leader of the
house in the national assembly, then the minister for
external affairs and commonwealth relations; married
Begum Hamida Mohammed Ali, an elected member of the
national assembly of Pakistan, and had issue. He died
in January 1963.
- The Honourable
Syeda Ashiqua Akbar, Zamindarani of
Bogra-Dhanbari (see above)
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