[2] Chowdhury was born in 1872, to a Bengali Muslim family known as the Zamindars of Rupsha in the village of Rupsha-Singhergaon, Faridganj, Chandpur, part of the erstwhile Tipperah District of the Bengal Presidency.

His father was Umed Reza Chowdhury, the former Zamindar of Rupsha, and the zamindari was founded by their ancestor Ahmad Raja.

He was invited to the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference in 1906, which was hosted by the Nawab of Dhaka Khwaja Salimullah in Shahbag, and thus became a founding member of the All-India Muslim League.

Chowdhury was a longtime member of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League's working committee and served as the president of its Tippera branch from 1935 to 1958.

In 1937, he contested in the 1937 Bengal legislative elections as a Muslim League candidate and won a seat in the Chandpur West constituency.