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Rattanbai Jinnah (née Petit; 20 February 1900 – 20 February 1929), also known as Ruttie Petit, was the wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, an important figure in the creation of Pakistan and the country's founder.
Jinnah's given name at birth was Mahomedali Jinnahbhai, and he likely was born in 1876, [b] to Jinnahbhai Poonja and his wife Mithibai, in a rented apartment on the second floor of Wazir Mansion near Karachi, [1] now in Sindh, Pakistan, but then within the Bombay Presidency of British India.
Dec 26, 2021 · Mohammad Ali Jinnah with the two women who were closest to him, his sister Fatima Jinnah, and daughter Dina. “No man succeeds without a good woman behind him,” said Harold MacMillan, a...
Dec 25, 2023 · Jinnah married twice and had one daughter, his only child. He was very close to his second wife, Rattanbai alias Ruttie, and his daughter, Dina, according to ‘Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin’ by Akbar S Ahmed, a Pakistani-American academic and former diplomat.
Dec 7, 2012 · When Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Ruttie Jinnah wed at the Jamia Mosque in Bombay in 1918, she had defied her wealthy Parsi family and he had taken on the onerous mantle of having to defend tying...
Emibai Jinnah (1878–1893) was the first wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, from 1892 until her death in 1893. Life and background. Emibai was born in 1878 in Paneli Moti, a village in Rajkot district of Gujarat, during the time of British India.
Excerpted with permission from 'Ruttie Jinnah: The Woman who stood defiant' by Dr Saad S. Khan, published by Penguin Random House.
Mohammed Ali Jinnah (born December 25, 1876?, Karachi, India [now in Pakistan]—died September 11, 1948, Karachi) was an Indian Muslim politician, who was the founder and first governor-general (1947–48) of Pakistan.
Dec 26, 2009 · Rattanbai Petit was the second wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Rattanbai was a Parsi who converted to Islam and adopted the name Mariam. The marriage took place on April 19, 1918.
Mar 17, 2017 · Yet despite vast differences in age, temperament and background, Ruttie Petit and Mohammed Ali Jinnah got married in 1919 and shocked their respective communities and society at large. Unfortunately, even though they fought all odds to come together, their love story's ending was far from happy.
