Jinnah’s daughter Dina Wadia passes away in New York

Mangalore Today News Network

New York, Nov 03, 2017 : Dina Wadia, daughter of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, passed away on Thursday, 2 November, in New York. She was aged 98.

 

Wadia was Jinnah’s only daughter, born to his second wife Rattanbai Petit in London, ironically on 15 August 1919. She is survived by her son, Nusli Wadia, and grandsons Ness and Jehangir Wadia.

Wadia’s relations with her father soured early in her life, when she expressed her wish to marry outside the religion. In 1938, the father-daughter rift further widened when Dina married a Parsi tycoon – Neville Wadia – forcing her father to adopt a curt, formal attitude towards her.

In fact, Jinnah’s assistant, Muhammad Currim Chagla, in his biography mentions:
Jinnah, in his usual imperious manner, told Dina that there were millions of Muslim boys in India, and she could have anyone she chose. But she reminded her father he had married a non-Muslim, to which Jinnah replied that ‘she did embrace Islam.’

When Jinnah left India for Pakistan in 1947, the relations had all but reached estrangement. Wadia then visited Pakistan in 1948 to attend her father’s funeral.

Wadia was back in spotlight when in 2007 Pakistan’s then president Pervez Musharraf expressed his desire to acquire Jinnah’s Mumbai house ‘South Court’ as Pakistan’s property, to convert it into a consulate.

However, Dina filed a petition in the Bombay High Court, stating that her father had died without a will and hence, the house be handed over to her.



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