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Mahmudul Karim Chowdhury

Bangladeshi politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ85852409 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mahmudul Karim Chowdhury was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a member of parliament for Chittagong-16.

Career

Chowdhury was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-11 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1979.

Death

Chowdhury died on 27 December 2012.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mahmudul Karim Chowdhury” as bangladeshi politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mahmudul, Karim and Chowdhury.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mahmudul, Karim and Chowdhury providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Mahmudul Karim Chowdhury”, the useful work is to connect “bangladeshi politician” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q85852409. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mahmudul Karim Chowdhury” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.