Choudhury was born to Bengali Muslim parents from Dargapasha, Sunamganj.
[2] Chowdhury and Abdul Matin Chaudhary together established Minar Printing and Publishing Limited on 14 July 1932 which published the weekly newspaper Jugabheri.
[7] Chowdhury served in the Central Legislative Assembly of India in the 1940s as an independent politician from the Muslim block of Assam.
[4] His son, Humayun Rashid Choudhury (died 10 July 2001),[11] was a diplomat and later the speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad (parliament of Bangladesh).
[4][12] His other son, Faruk Rashid Chowdhury, served as the finance minister of Bangladesh.