| Abdur Rasheed Choudhury | |
| Native Name: | আব্দুর রশীদ চৌধুরী |
| Birth Date: | 12 July 1895[1] |
| Birth Place: | Dargapasha, Sylhet, Assam Province, British India |
| Death Place: | Sylhet, British India |
| Office5: | Member of Indian Legislative Assembly |
| Term Start5: | 1934 |
| Term End5: | 1944 |
| Predecessor5: | Abdul Matin Chaudhary |
| Successor5: | Ali Asghar Khan |
| Constituency5: | Assam (Muslim) |
| President5: | Sir Abdur Rahim |
| Children: | 10 Including Humayun & Faruk |
Abdur Rasheed Choudhury (bn|আব্দুর রশীদ চৌধুরী; died 1944) was a Bengali politician from Sylhet.
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.[3] Before that, he worked as an Extra Assistant Commissioner in Sylhet. The editor of the newspaper was Moqbul Hussain Choudhury.[4] Chowdhury was a tea planter and owned Sirajnagar tea garden.[5] He also owned Hamdard Tea Company Limited and Dilkusha tea estate.[6]
Chowdhury served in the Central Legislative Assembly of India in the 1940s as an independent politician from the Muslim block of Assam.[7] [8]
Choudhury was married to Begum Serajunnessa Choudhury (died 1974) when she was 16 as his second wife.[9] He had three sons from his first marriage and seven from his second. His son, Humayun Rashid Choudhury (died 10 July 2001),[10] was a diplomat and later the speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad (parliament of Bangladesh).[11] [12] His other son, Faruk Rashid Chowdhury, served as the finance minister of Bangladesh.[13]
He had 10 children, among them:
Choudhury died in 1944.