Abdur Rasheed Choudhury

Abdur Rasheed Choudhury (died 1944) was a Bengali politician from Sylhet.

Early life Choudhury was born to Bengali Muslim parents from Dargapasha, Sunamganj.

Career Chowdhury and Abdul Matin Chaudhury together established Minar Printing and Publishing Limited on 14 July 1932 which published the weekly newspaper Jugabheri. Before that, he worked as an Extra Assistant Commissioner in Sylhet. Chowdhury was a tea planter and owned Sirajnagar tea garden. He also owned Hamdard Tea Company Limited and Dilkusha tea estate.

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

Personal life Abdur Rasheed Choudhury first married Razia Rashid, a senior Cambridge graduate from an institution in Calcutta. She died from tuberculosis in 1918. He went on to have seven more children from this marriage. Another son, Faruk Rashid Chowdhury, served as the state minister of finance, and fisheries and livestock. Others were Zeba Rasheed Chowdhury, Jahanzeb Chowdhury, Mamunur Rashid Chowdhury, and Kaiser Rasheed Chowdhury.

Death Choudhury died in 1944.