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> >> AN AMAZING HISTORICAL FACT, PROBABLY KNOWN TO VERY >> FEW....Roots of Muhammed Ali Jinnah >> >> Here >> are some interesting facts on the Lohana roots of Mohammad >> Ali Jinnah the founding father of >> Pakistan.He is the grandson of >> Premjibhai Thakkar (Gondal), a Lohana, who, to support his >> family, entered into the trading of fish in the coastal town >> of Veraval. >> His business, however, clashed with the strong >> (vegetarian) moral ethics of the Lohanas and as a result he >> was ostracised from the community.He >> made enough money in this trade and attempted to rejoin the >> community. He also discontinued the fishing business. >> However, the Lohana leaders did not accept his request to >> rejoin the community. Think about the course of history, if >> they had not had inflated egos and had allowed him to >> come back! >> Premjibhai's son Punjalal Thakkar >> (Jinnah's father) was enraged at his father's >> humiliation and reacted like any other Lohana - with equal >> and opposite force. He adopted Islam and changed the names >> of all his four sons. However, he continued to use his >> Gujarati nickname: Zino (pronounced Jinno in old fashioned >> Gujarati) which means 'skinny.' Jinno`s son - >> Mohammad Ali - changed his family name to Jinnah - the >> nickname of his converted father. >> Jinnah's first marriage in 1892 was the >> result of his mother urging him to marry his cousin Emibai >> before he left for England to pursue higher studies. >> However, Emibai died a few months later. His second marriage >> took place in 1918 to Rattanbai Petit, a Parsi lady who was >> 24 years his junior. Rattanbai converted to Islam when she >> married Jinnah and took on the name Maryam Jinnah. In 1919, >> she gave birth to their only daughter, Dina >> Wadia. >> Dina was born to Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Maryam >> Jinnah in London in 1919 - shortly after midnight on August >> 15, 1919. As Stanley Wolpert's "Jinnah of >> Pakistan" records: "Oddly enough, precisely >> twenty-eight years to the day and hour before the birth of >> Jinnah's other offspring, Pakistan." >> Dina had a rift with her father when she >> expressed her desire to marry a Parsi-born Indian, Neville >> Wadia. According to M C Chagla in "Roses in >> December", Jinnah, a Muslim, disowned his daughter >> after trying to dissuade her from marrying Neville. Dina >> Wadia is the only direct living link to Jinnah and the >> nation of Pakistan which claims her father as ‘Father of >> the Nation’. Dina's descendants, including her son >> Nusli Wadia, who runs Bombay Dyeing, are part of the Wadia >> family and reside in India as she married and stayed in >> India after the partition of India. >> So, here is the fact. Gandhiji, who spearheded >> the movement for independent India, is aptly regarded as >> ‘Father of India’. Gandhi and Jinnah (father of >> Pakistan), are both sons of Saurashtra, (old Kathiavad) >> Gujarat. > > > > > >
