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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = [[Munshi]]
| name = Mohammad Rowshan Ali Chowdhury
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| birth_date = {{Birth year|1874}}
| birth_place = Maguradangi, [[Pangsha]], [[Faridpur Division|Faridpur District]], [[Bengal Presidency]]<br />(now [[Bangladesh]])
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1933|1874}}
| death_place = Maguradangi, [[Pangsha]], [[British Raj]]<br />(now [[Rajbari District]], [[Bangladesh]])
| nationality =
| other_names = Roushon
| relatives = [[Yakub Ali Chowdhury|Yakub]] and Awlad (younger brothers), [[Rokanuzzaman Khan]] (grandnephew)
| father = Enayetullah Chowdhury
| occupation = Journalist
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'''Mohammad Rowshan Ali Chowdhury''' ({{lang-bn|মোহাম্মদ রওশন আলী চৌধুরী}}; 1874{{ndash}}1933) was a Bengali journalist, writer, poet and politician.

==Early life==
Chowdhury was born in 1874 in the village of Maguradangi in [[Pangsha]] into the aristocratic [[Bengali Muslim]] Chowdhury family of [[Greater Faridpur]]. His father was Enayetullah Chowdhury, a policeman by profession. He studied at EM School in Pangsha.<ref name="bpedia">{{cite Banglapedia|author=Saifuzzaman, AKM|article=Chowdhury, Mohammad Rowshan Ali}}</ref> His brother was [[Yakub Ali Chowdhury]], an essayist, and his younger brother was Awlad Ali Chowdhury, also a journalist.<ref>{{cite Banglapedia|author=Haque, Khondkar Sirajul|article=Chowdhury, Mohammad Yakub Ali}}</ref>

==Career==
Chowdhury married a [[Bengali Muslim]] woman from [[Kumarkhali Upazila|Lahinipara]] in [[Kushtia District]] who happened to be a relative of the renowned author [[Mir Mosharraf Hossain]]. Being acquainted with the latter, the two men began to publish [[The Kohinoor]] magazine from Kushtia. He also founded the ''Kohinoor Sahitya Samiti'' (Kohinoor Literary Society) in Pangsha which would publish the magazine and the literary ''Purnima Sammilani'' (Full Moon Association) in Pangsha too. Chowdhury served as the Editor of The Kohinoor magazine. In April 1905, he was the Joint Secretary of the [[Rajshahi]]-established Bangiya Islam Mission Samiti alongside [[Maniruzzaman Islamabadi]]. As well as being a member of the [[Bangiya Sahitya Parishad]] (via executive committee election), he was also part of the [[Bangiya Mussalman Sahitya Samiti]]. He served as the editor the [[Persian language]] weekly ''Hablul Matin'' in 1912 and [[The Soltan]] weekly in 1923. Rahman was also the news editor of the monthly [[The Mohammadi|Mohammadi]] newspaper too. Mir Mosharraf Hossain and Chowdhury also planned on and advertised a fortnightly magazine by the name ''Hitkari'' though it was never published.<ref name=bhor>{{cite news|url=https://www.bhorerkagoj.com/2019/06/02/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%93-%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%A8/|title='কোহিনূর' পত্রিকা ও রওশন আলী চৌধুরী|language=bn|author=Abul Ahsan Chaudhuri|date=2 June 2019|website=[[Bhorer Kagoj]]}}</ref>

Though Chowdhury had a keen interest in [[Bengali literature]]; both prose and poetry, he never published any books. His works mainly consisted of opinion writing and news reports in the form of prose. Raushan Ali's biographer traced a total of twelve signed works; six poems and six essays. Almost all of these articles were published in his edited [[The Kohinoor]]. Many of his works for [[The Kohinoor]] are considered to be unsigned and therefore unable to prove that they are his writings. Jogindranath Samaddar's ''List of Muslim writers'' (1915) included the life and works of Rowshan Ali and his close relations with fellow writers.<ref name=bhor/>

He took part in the fifth conference of the ''Bangiya Sahitya Sammelan'' held at [[Hugli-Chuchura]] in 1912. On the third day of the conference, Chowdhury raised his condolences on the death of his acquaintance [[Mir Mosharraf Hossain]], and was supported by Chandicharan Bandyopadhyay of the [[24 Parganas]].

He supported secular politics and was a supporter of the [[Indian National Congress]]. He was leader of [[Non-Cooperation Movement]], a pro independence movement in India, in Faridpur. He supported the [[Khilafat Movement]], a movement in India that called for the restoration of the [[Ottoman Empire]].<ref name="bpedia" /><ref>{{cite Banglapedia|author=[[Wakil Ahmed|Ahmed, Wakil]]|article=Kohinoor, The}}</ref> He served as the Chairman of the Faridpur District Congress Committee.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chatterjee |first1=Srilata |title=Congress Politics in Bengal 1919-1939 |date=2003 |publisher=Anthem Press |isbn=9781843313663 |page=61 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2L81DgAAQBAJ&q=Mohammad+Rowshan+Ali+Chowdhury&pg=PA61 |access-date=5 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

==Works==
*''Nītibarta'' - Message of Morals (essay, late 1898)
*''Minoti'' - Request (poem, June 1904)

==Death==
Rahman died in 1933 in Maguradanga, [[Pangsha Upazila]], [[Faridpur Division|Faridpur District]], [[East Bengal]], [[British India]].<ref name="bpedia" />

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