Ruttie Jinnah: The Story, Told And Untold

The biography of Ruttie Jinnaḥ, wife of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. The book focuses on Jinnah’s conjugal relationship with his wife, Rattenbai, popularly known as Ruttie. The author Khwaja Razi Haider, a researcher of the freedom movement in Pakistan, has reconstructed the Jinnah-Ruttie relationship not on the basis of what they wrote to each other, but what others have written about them. Jinnah married his fabulously rich and renowned magnate Parsi friend Sir Dinshaw Petit’s daughter, Ruttie, when she was 18 and he was 42. Sir Dinshaw opposed her daughter marrying Jinnah, but she walked out of her parental home to which she was never to return. The book chronicles the Jinnah-Ruttie relationship through the troubled times of the end of the British Raj in the Subcontinent, the struggle for Pakistan, their two very different personalities, and their final falling out. The life of Ruttie, a dazzlingly beautiful, heartrendingly tragic, and mysterious figure, is fully explored in this biography.