Wednesday, January 23, 2013

JINNAH & NEHRU : A SHORT REVIEW ON THEIR OUTLOOK ABOUT FAMILY VALUES

I wish to compare here Nehru  and Jinnah, Jinnah married Raten Bai converted her to Islam, Nehru married to Kamla – who was a Hindu ,both had a daughter each, both Indira and Dina were each married to parsee, jinnah  tried to stop Dina marrying parsee christian but in vain. On the contrary Nehru, although initially was a bit uncomfortable with Indira’a choice of a parsee youth, he later accepted it &  played his role as a father in the  bestowal ceremony of his daughter. This simple facts may reflect their mental status & orientation towards adjustment, adaptation and reconditioning  with the eventuality even at family level. Jinnah kept his own opinion at the top ignoring those of others, but probably in his daughter’s case there is more to it.   Jinnah’s two nation theory is  purely pro-Islamic. It is not true that he did not practice Islam, & just to avoid Hindu dominance he wanted Pakistan. That Jinnah(1876-1948) drank whiskey & ate pork( http://ww.atimes.net/The-Edge/South-Asia/47711-Quaid-e-Azam-was-not-secular-says-Dr-Javed-Iqbal.htm) was his  personal fascination, habit & weakness, like that he smoked 50 cigs per day, which he could not give up even after he developed TB.  In personal life when he became very fond of less- than- half-of-his-age-old Ranten Bai Petit an underaged(1900-1929)daughter of his Parsee friend, he waited untill she became 18, &  got married in 1918 only to become separated in 1927, & Raten bai died in 1929. His daughter Dina (1919 - )did not get along well with him they had many differences  Dina did not go to stay Pakistan– the nation for the realization of which her father worked so hard. In Dina’s childhood Jinnah did instruct his sister Fatima Jinnah to teach her the religious teachings of Holy Islam ("Jinnah & Islam" - Jinnah raised his daughter as a Muslim. According to Jinnah's chauffeur Bradbury, Jinnah asked his sister, Fatima, "to teach her niece, Dina (Jinnah’s only daughter) about Islam and The Holy Qur'an" Mr. Qutbuddin Aziz quoting Bradbury who had been chauffeur during his London years 1930-35 ). Dina married Nevillein in 1938,( a Parsi who first converted to Christianity & then reconverted to Zoroastrianism) ( http://www.paklinks.com/gs/all-views/165215-dina-wadia.html). Jinnah did not want Dina to  get married to a man of different religious denomination, writes  Mohammedali Currim Chagla who had been the assistant of Jinnah at the time-  "Jinnah, in his usual imperious manner, told her that there were millions of Muslim boys in India, and she could have anyone she chose. Reminding her father that his wife (Dina's mother Rattanbai), had also been a non-Muslim, the young lady replied: 'Father, there were millions of Muslim girls in India. Why did you not marry one of them?'And he replied that, 'she became a Muslim” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Wadia)
Jinnah’s will in 1939 included three muslim institution 1)Sind madrasa , 2)Aligarg & 3)Islamia college in peshwar but did not include his only daughter Dina.  
(Dina has been involved in litigation regarding Jinnah House in Mumbai Malabar hils claiming that Hindu Law is applicable to Jinnah as he was a Khoja Shia.)

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