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A Portrait of Ruttie Jinnah That Doesn't Hold Up


A Portrait of Ruttie Jinnah That Doesn’t Hold Up
There is much that is debatable and untenable in the new book on Jinnah’s wife.
Ruttie Jinnah. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
Who is worthy of a biography?
The shakers who change civilisation and our view of the world – the scientists, writers, painters and philosophers. And perhaps more than them, the movers, the captains and the kings and, if we believe Winston Churchill’s contention that behind every man who achieves anything there stands a woman, their consorts and their queens!
Nur Jahan for Jehangir, Josephine for Napoleon and now according to this multi-purpose, (let’s not call it ‘rambling’, yet) biography ( ....

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Rattanbai Petit and Mohammad Ali Jinnah: An Interfaith Marriage That Went Down in History


Rattanbai Petit and Mohammad Ali Jinnah: An Interfaith Marriage That Went Down in History
Excerpted with permission from Ruttie Jinnah: The Woman who stood defiant by Dr Saad S. Khan, published by Penguin Random House.
A digitised image of Ruttie and Mohammed Ali Jinnah superimposed on their Bombay home South Point. Photo: Special arrangement
History21/Jan/2021
The marriage between Rattanbai Petit and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, in 1918, was nothing short of a box-office thriller. It indeed was ‘the marriage that shook India’, as Sheela Reddy’s aptly titled book suggests. Given the high status that Jinnah enjoyed at the time in the eyes of the British government, within the Congress and the Muslim League and before both the factions of the Home Rule League (led by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant, respectively), Jinnah had many enemies who were jealous of his success. Ruttie, the jewel of Bombay, had so many suitors that she had rejected that it would ....

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