volved in social activities.
The Chowdhury Moyezuddin Family: This family is one of the few pre-British period ruling families with extensive presence till today.
The family originated from Turkey. The first person to come and settle in Bengal had been Arafat Ali in the early 1600s. They had come and settled in Durgapur where they had set up a garrison in circa 1630. Prior to his advent in what was Fatehabad at that time, the family had been settled in Jaunpur of Uttar Pradesh for about 3.5 centuries where they had been preachers of Islam and later had been important rank holders in the Mughal army. They were granted the Jagirdari of what is Northern Faridpur (Rajbari district and present Faridpur)and later when the British colonization took place, the territory that they controlled was divided into 23 segments and 22 of these were auctioned away too many Hindu merchants, mostly from West Bengal, giving rise to many of the Hindu zamindaris of Faridpur. One segment was retained by the family which became known as the Chanpur Estate, based in Shibrampur village of Ishan Goplapur union. They adopted the title of Wish-wash at this stage from 1790s as that was given to them by the people of the locality where they set up a vast palace complex spread over 200 acres of land. Son of Chowdhury Jamaluddin was Chowdhury Moquimuddin Wish-wash who expanded the estate in West Bengal. His eldest son Chowdhury Moyezuddin Wish-wash born in 1840 rose to be the most famous of their lineage. He had fallout with his family after his father (Chowdhury Moquimuddin Wish-wash)'s demise in 1856, and subsequently he migrated to Rampur district where he acquired his initial wealth through a series of small businesses. It is from there, through his own entrepreneurship that he accumulated vast cash capital with which he purchased lands across North Bengal, present West Bengal province of India, and eventually in Faridpur. He returned to Faridpur in 1871, and lived in Chanpur with
