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Among the pioneer female revolutionaries of early 20th century India, Rattanbai Maryam Jinnah, wife of Pakistan’s founder, is possibly one of the most understudied and underappreciated figures in modern South Asian history. Being reserved, Jinnah never publically talked about his personal life. It took the authors 12 years to collect enough material extensive research, interviews with historians, family members and lawyers to put together this unique biography of an elusive life. Ruttie, as she was known, was a scion of one of then-Bombay’s richest Parsee families. Her father, Sir Dinshaw Petit, was a prominent industrialist and textile magnate. At the Orient Club, he became fast friends with Jinnah, who was 23 years older than Ruttie. When Jinnah asked Petit for Ruttie’s hand in marriage, the former filed a writ restraining him from meeting his daughter. This did not stop the couple from seeing each other. Reportedly, Ruttie proposed to Jinnah at the Taj Mahal Hotel bal ....
A Portrait of Ruttie Jinnah That Doesnât Hold Up There is much that is debatable and untenable in the new book on Jinnahâs 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 â the scientists, writers, painters and philosophers. And perhaps more than them, the movers, the captains and the kings and, if we believe Winston Churchillâs 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, (letâs not call it âramblingâ, yet) biography ( ....