[4] Abu Torab was born into a wealthy Bengali Muslim Zamindar family in Sandwip, Bengal Subah during the Mughal period.
Abu Torab Chowdhury could not accept Gokul Ghoshal's authority, who had come to Sandwip to collect revenue on behalf of the East India Company between 1763 and 1764.
Exactly 10 years following this event in 1767, Abu Torab gathered the people of Sandwip and rebelled against the colonial governors in Chittagong and their native allies such as Gokul Ghoshal.
[8] Abu Torab refrained from depositing revenue and instructed his general Malkam Singh to expel Ghoshal's representatives from Sandwip.
Abu Torab was killed in this battle as a result of treachery from one of his close relatives who had leaked his war strategy to the British Company.
[10] After the fall of Abu Torab, the lesser zamindars of Sandwip accepted the tyranny of Gokul Ghoshal in return for their zamindaris (land, estates).