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Chowdhury Moyezuddin Biwshash (1840–1923) 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.[1]
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Moyezuddin supported the Indian National Congress.[citation needed]
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]
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