PRESENT RULER: CHOWDHURY IRAD AHMED SIDDIKY, present head of the Baliadi Zamindari family (Baliadi Zamindarbari, Gazipur, India)

former candidate of the Mayor of Dhaka, People’s Republic of Bangladesh; married and has issue.

• Aymann Ahmed Siddiky

• Aaron Ahmed Siddiky

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The Baliadi (Baliati) estate was granted to the son of Nawab Shah Qutubuddin Siddiky Koka, the first Subedar of Bengal, who was an adopted son of Padshah Akbar and a foster brother of Padshah Jahangir. Through him, the family also claims descent from Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique (Siddiky), the first Caliph of Islam and the father in law of the Prophet Muhammad of Islam. Estate holders were...

• Shah Qutubudduddin Siddiky Koka [Sheikh Khuban], he was killed in a battle against Sher Afghan and lies buried at Pir Baharam in Bardhaman in Bengal; married and had issue.

  • Saad Uddin Siddiky (qv)

• Saad Uddin Siddiky, he was granted three jagirs by the Mughal Emperor, viz. Amenabad (modern Mankganj), Talebabad (modern Gazipur) and Chandrapratap (modern Tangail) when the capital of the Mughals in Bengal shifted from Rajmahal (Burdwan, West Bengal) to Dhaka (the present day capital of Bangladesh) in 1612; he was also made the Commander of 5,000 foot soldiers (Paanch Hazari).

• Abdur Rashid Siddiky

• Obaidullah Siddiky

• Giyasuddin Siddiky

• Mazduddin Siddiky

• Mazlesh Hussein Siddiky

• Mazlesh Gauhar Siddiky

• Mazlesh Dawlat Siddiky

• Mazlesh Alam Siddiky

• Muhammad Khan Bahadur Siddiky

• Saad Ullah Khan Bahadur Siddiky

• Chowdhury Abdul Wahed Siddiky, he was granted the title of Chowdhury for his loyalty, by Padshah Shah Alam and was also appointed Paanch Hazari (Commander of 5,000 soldiers);

• Chowdhury Nazem uddin Hussain Siddiky

• Chowdhury Shahamuddin Hussain Siddiky

• Chowdhury Hussain uddin Hussain Siddiky

• Chowdhury Raisuddin Ahmed Siddiky

• Khan Bahadur Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky, Zamindar of Baliadi, born 1876, (received a Royal charter from Warren Hastings to govern North Central part of East Bengal under the permanent settlement act of the British empire), Founding President of the East Bengal and Assam Provincial Muslim League when it was established at Dhaka in June 1908 with Khwaja Salimullah as its secretary. Member of the Jagannath College Governing Body, Member of the Muslim Deputation waiting on Lord Charles Hardinge to press home their demand to establish a University at Dhaka. In recognition of his public services the British Government conferred upon him the title of Khan Bahadur; married and had issue. He died 1937.

  • Khan Bahadur Chowdhury Labibuddin Ahmed Siddiky (qv)

  • Justice Badruddin Ahmed Siddiky, educated at Galimpur, at Dhaka College (I.A., 1932), at Calcutta University and at Dhaka University (Law, 1937); former Chief Justice of the United Pakistan whofamouslyrefused togive oath to Tikkah Khan, as the Governor of East Pakistan, therebyaccelerating the movement for the independence of Bangladesh; he was also the permanent representative of the people of Bangladesh to the United Nations; he served as the last Chief Justice of East Pakistan, he joined the All India Muslim League in 1935; he joined the Calcutta High Court as an advocate in 1946 and was involved in the Commission on the Hindu-Muslim riots of Calcutta; Chairman of Pakistan Red Cross and Vice Chairman of I.C.R.C.; appointed Adviser to the President of Bangladesh with the rank and status of a Cabinet Minister. He died in December 1991.

• Khan Bahadur Chowdhury Labibuddin Ahmed Siddiky, Zamindar of Baliadi, First Elected Chairman, Dhaka Education Board; Court Member, University of Dacca; married and had issue.

• Chowdhury Borhanuddin Ahmed Siddiky, married and had issue.

  • Hon. Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky (qv)

  • Chowdhury Nasim Uddin Ahmed Siddiky, he served as a Police Officer in New York for the New York Police Department for 10 years; married and had issue, two sons. He died on 9th April 2000.

    • Shomen Ahmed Siddiky, married and has issue, two sons.

      • Adam Siddiqui

      • Aaron Siddiqui

    • Shawn Uddin Chowdhury

• Hon. Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky, Zamindar of Baliadi, former Commerce Minister of Bangladesh, senior-most member of the national standing committee, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party; founder of the Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industries; former President, Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries; former President, Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industries; founder Treasurer of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and a member of the National Standing Committee; member of the second parliament and served as state minister in 1980–81; President of Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries in 1979 and Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industries from 1976–1978; he served as director of former National Bank of Pakistan and Janata Bank.

  • Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky (qv)

• Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky, Zamindar of Baliadi (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS: .

• Khan Bahadur Chowdhury Fariduddin Ahmed Siddiky, Founder, Salimullah Muslim Orphanage in 1923;

• Chowdhury Abaruddin Ahmed Siddiky, he served as a former Mayor of Dhaka

• Hon. Chowdhury Arhamuddin Ahmed Siddiky, former Treasurer of Bangladesh Awami League in exile during Independence movement of 1971, he was one of the proponents of 6 Point and 11 point of Awami league; former Adviser to the Finance Minister of the Government of Bangladesh.