Chowdhury Moyezuddin Biwshash

Chowdhury Moyezuddin Biwshash (1840–1923) was a Bengali Muslim merchant and aristocrat from Biswas Bari in 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.

[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.