The family traced its ancestry to Kashmiri merchants who settled in Bengal for trade during Mughal and British times.

In 1946, he stood in the assembly election of Bengal as an independent candidate but suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of his relative, Khwaja Khairuddin who was on a Muslim League ticket.

[4] After the partition of India he held the position of vice-president in East Pakistan Muslim League.

[2] During his reign as the Nawab of Dhaka, the estate continued the decline that had begun under his father.

He died on 21 November 1958 and was buried alongside his father at the Nawab family graveyard in Begumbazar in Dhaka.