Background
He was the son of his more prominent father, Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur. In 1915 at the death of his father he succeeded as the Nawab of Dhaka.
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Khwaja Habibullah
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Under his rule, the Dhaka Nawab Estate went into decline until its actual relinquishment in 1952 by the East Pakistan Estates Acquisition Acting. Khwaja Habibullah was in 26 April 1895 in Dhaka. He father was Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur of Dhaka Nawab family.
He went to school in Darjeeling, at Saint Paul"s school and later continued his education in England.
In 1918 he joined the Bengali Platoon of the British Indian army. He served in the British mandate of Mesopotamia as an honorary lieutenant.
He served in Dhaka district board and Dhaka municipality board. He took part in the Khilafat Andolan.
He was the representative of Dhaka in the Bengal legislative council from 1924 till 1932.
Nawab Habibullah had supported the 1932 communal award proposal of the British Raj. From 1937 to 1941 he was a minister in the cabinet of A K Fazlul Haq. He held organize the celebration of Pakistan Independence in Dhaka and raised the flag of Pakistan in Lalbagh fort.
During his reign as the Nawab of Dhaka, the estate fell into the control of the Court of Wards.
In his closing days he retired from politics because of health related reasons. He left the Ahsan Manzil Palace and resided in another of the royal residences, Green House, in Dhaka"s Paribagh area.
He died on 21 November, 1958 and was buried alongside his father at the Nawab family graveyard in Begumbazar in Dhaka.
Politics
After the partition of India he held the position of vice-president in East Pakistan Muslim League.
