Chowdhury
Title in the Indian subcontinent
Summary
Chowdhury, Choudhuri, Chaudhuri, Choudhury, Chaudhri, Chaudhury, Chaudhry, or Chaudhary, is a title of honour, usually hereditary, originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is an adaption from Sanskrit. During the Mughal rule, it was a title awarded to eminent people, while during British rule, the term was associated with zamindars and social leaders. The common female equivalent was Chowdhurani.
Originally created by 81.182.227.75
6/21/2005, 2:04:01 PM
Modified
4/10/2026, 8:24:29 PM
Recent revisions
* {{anbl|Suchibrata Roy Choudhury}}
removed [[Category:Pakistani names]]; added [[Category:Surnames of Pakistani origin]] using [[WP:HC|HotCat]]
/* Chaudhri */ add. Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry
Clean up spacing around commas and other punctuation fixes, replaced: ,T → , T
/* Other */During the French Revolution the commune was once called Chaudri.
[[WP:AWB/T|Typo fixing]], [[WP:AWB/T|typo(s) fixed]]: 1946-2011 → 1946–2011 (12)
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Restored revision 1303723120 by [[Special:Contributions/Tassedethe|Tassedethe]] ([[User talk:Tassedethe|talk]]): Reverted to non vandalised and most sense based and wiki readable version of Chowdhury
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Protected "[[Chowdhury]]": [[WP:Arbitration Committee/Procedures#Enforcement|Arbitration enforcement]]: per RFPP and [[WP:CT/SA]] ([Edit=Require extended confirmed access] (indefinite) [Move=Require extended confirmed access] (indefinite))
as I said earlier, the old editorial misinterpreter doesn’t fully relay on original research and apparently using outdated incompetent citational work for selective embedment [[WP:CONTEXTMATTER]]
Reverted 1 edit by [[Special:Contributions/Ragedcanvas|Ragedcanvas]] ([[User talk:Ragedcanvas|talk]]): New users are not supposed to edit anything related to caste; extended confirmed required; persistent caste POV pushing
partly resolving the old revision without any balkanising of coexisted source prior to constant sock farm evasion on same consistory issue [[WP:Banvert]]
Restored revision 1309515744 by [[Special:Contributions/AnomieBOT|AnomieBOT]] ([[User talk:AnomieBOT|talk]]): IP editors and new editors are not supposed to edit anything related to caste; minimum 500 edits required
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/* Regional */Fixed Cs1 reference erroring and default sort key for better refinement [[WP:MOS]]
