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| name = Syed Azizur Rahman<br />
| native_name = সৈয়দ আজিজুর রহমান<br />
| native_name_lang = bn<br />
| office = [[Chief Whip]] of the [[East Bengal Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| office1 = Member of the [[Bengal Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| term_start1 = 1946<br />
| term_end1 = 1947<br />
| constituency1 = [[Bhola Island|Bhola South]]<br />
| predecessor1 = Tofayel Ahmed Chowdhury<br />
| successor1 = ''Assembly disbanded''<br />
| birth_date = 1901<br />
| birth_place = [[Borhanuddin Upazila|Batamara]], [[Bhola Island]], [[Backergunge District]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1956|1901}}<br />
| death_place = <br />
| party = [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]]<br />
| relatives = [[Razia Banu]] (sister-in-law)<br />
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}}<br />
'''Syed Azizur Rahman''' ({{lang-bn|সৈয়দ আজিজুর রহমান}}; 1901–1956), also known by his [[daak naam]] '''Nawab Mia''' ({{lang-bn|নওয়াব মিঞা}}), was a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] politician and a former [[Whip (politics)|whip]] of the [[East Bengal Legislative Assembly]].<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Azizur Rahman was born in 1901 to an aristocratic [[Bengali Muslim]] ''[[zamindar]]'' family known as the [[Syed]]s of [[Borhanuddin Upazila|Batamara]] in [[Bhola Island]], which was then a part of the [[Backergunge District]] of the [[Bengal Presidency]]. The ''zamindari'' was established by his grandfather, Syed Turab Ali, after initially being gifted 360 acres of land in Bhola by Kalaraja, a zamindar of [[Ulania]]. Ali was originally from [[Jaunpur district|Jaunpur]], India and associated with its [[Karamat Ali Jaunpuri|Pir family]] but was stationed as a police constable in the greater Barisal region. Azizur Rahman's father, Syed Altafur Rahman, died when Azizur Rahman was nine years old. He was then brought up at the Agarpur Miyan Bari in [[Wazirpur Upazila|Wazirpur]], which was the home of his maternal grandfather. On his mother's side, Azizur Rahman was a descendant of [[Pathans in India|Pathan]] general Shah Muhammad Ashraf Jahan Khan.<ref name=bor/> He completed his studies at the [[Brojomohun College]] in [[Barisal]].<ref name=ruseli/><br />
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==Career==<br />
Aged only eighteen, Azizur Rahman began his career at the Bakerganj District Board and served as a member of the local board for three consecutive decades. He contributed to developing the infrastructure of the district and particularly involved in social work. He contested for the Bhola South constituency as a [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]] politician at the [[1937 Bengal Legislative Assembly election]], losing to Tofayel Ahmad Chowdhury of the [[Krishak Praja Party]]. Azizur Rahman was elected to the [[Bengal Legislative Assembly]] as a [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]] politician for Bhola South constituency after defeating his rival [[Khan Bahadur Hasem Ali Khan|Hashem Ali Khan]] of the Krishak Praja Party at the [[1946 Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1946 elections]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.11657/page/n139/mode/2up|title=The Indian Year Book|editor=[[Stanley Reed (British politician)|Reed, Sir Stanley]]|year=1947|page=92|chapter=Bengal Legislative Assembly}}</ref> In the same year, he opened a [[langar khana]] in his own home, the Batamara Darogah Bari, where he distributed food for one month. Seeing his initiative, the government later opened langar khanas in different parts of the region.<ref name=ruseli/><br />
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After the [[Partition of Bengal (1947)|Partition of Bengal]] in 1947, he became a parliamentary secretary. He served as the [[Chief Whip]] of the [[East Bengal Legislative Assembly]] for seven years.<ref name=ruseli/><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
His younger brother, Syed Mahbubur Rahman, was a [[government of Bangladesh|Bangladesh government]] secretary and the husband of politician [[Razia Banu]].<ref name=bor>{{cite book|title=বরিশাল বিভাগের ইতিহাস|language=bn|year=2010|author=[[Siraj Uddin Ahmed|Ahmed, Siraj Uddin]]|volume=1|publisher=Bhaskar Prakashani|location=[[Dhaka]]|trans-title=History of the Barisal Division}}</ref> Azizur Rahman's elder daughter married Captain Kabiruddin Ahmad (former deputy director of ports and shipping, BIWTA), the third son of [[Khan Bahadur]] Hemayetuddin Ahmad.<ref name=ruseli>{{cite book|author=Chowdhury, Ruseli Rahman|title=বরিশালের প্রয়াত গুণীজন|chapter=সৈয়দ আজিজুর রহমান (নওয়াব মিয়া)|publisher=University Book Publishers|location=[[Dhaka]], [[Bangladesh]]|year=2006}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
Azizur Rahman died in 1956.<ref name=ruseli/><br />
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