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ISLAMABAD: Dina Wadia, daughter of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, passed away in Indian city Mumbai on Thursday. She was 98.

Dina Wadia was the only child of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his second wife Rattanbai Petit who was also known as Maryam Jinnah.

Dina Wadia was born in London on August 15, 1919. Her paternal grandparents were from Gujarat, who moved to Karachi for business in the mid 1870s, where her father, Mr. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was born.

https://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/2017/11/quaid-e-azams-only-daughter-dina-wadia-is-no-more/
 
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Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Illahi Rajiyoon
 
Sad that Dina Wadia and her father's relationship became strained after her marriage.

Dina married a Parsi in Neville Wadia. Jinnah asked why she couldn't marry one of the millions of Muslim boys in India. Dina retorted why he didn't marry one of the millions of Muslim girls in India - referring to Ruttie who tragically died young.
 
inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
 
Markhor said:
Sad that Dina Wadia and her father's relationship became strained after her marriage.

Dina married a Parsi in Neville Wadia. Jinnah asked why she couldn't marry one of the millions of Muslim boys in India. Dina retorted why he didn't marry one of the millions of Muslim girls in India - referring to Ruttie who tragically died young.
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He answered that she converted before the marriage.
 
troodon said:
So his Daughter can convert back to Parsi then?
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He answered his daughter that her mother ( a Parsi ) converted to Islam before their marriage. So for her to marry a Parsi was fine for him as long as Mr. Wadia converted to Islam.
 
Very sad. She used to come to Bloomingdales every year in NYC when there was a sale. It's ironic that she was born 20 years prior to Jinnah's other offspring on the night of Aug. 14th and 15th.
 
Incase people havent realized, she was the daughter of the founder of our nation and she has passed away.

Show some respect to her and The Quaid-e-Azam. I will delete anything remotely insulting to Mr. Jinnah or his family.
 
Dina Wadia, the only daughter of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Rattanbai Petit, passed away in New York on Thursday, sources in Mumbai and New York confirmed.

She was 98 years old.

She had been born on the night between August 14 and 15 in 1919.

Jinnah had raised Dina alone after his separation from Rattanbai and her subsequent demise.

He loved her deeply, but their relationship had become strained after Dina fell in love with and married an Indian Parsi named Neville Wadia at the age of 17.

Dina and Neville lived in Mumbai and had two children, a boy and a girl, before the couple divorced.

Dina had first visited Pakistan in 1948, when the year-old country had lost its founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

The last time she visited Pakistan was in 2004, accompanied by her son, Nasli Wadia, and grandchildren, Jehangir and Ness.

After visiting the mausoleum of her father, she had written in the visitors' book: “This has been very sad and wonderful for me. May his [Jinnah's] dream for Pakistan come true.”

https://www.dawn.com/news/1367906/jinnahs-only-daughter-dina-wadia-passes-away-at-98
 
Sad news. Hope her family and loved ones find peace amidst her demise.
 
My apologies. She was born 28 years before the creation of Pakistan and India.
 
I saw one of her pictures today and she looked totally like her father (ra)
 
She married into one of the most influential Indian families,although she could had been very influential in Pakistan as well but Fatima Jinnah was never given her due so why would Dina get hers.

Not a fan of Wadias business model but Dina did well for herself.
 
Markhor said:
Sad that Dina Wadia and her father's relationship became strained after her marriage.
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Although, I think it is important to state that "they made it up, and often spoke and wrote to each other" (https://thewire.in/193905/muhammad-ali-jinnah-daughter-dina-wadia/).

Indeed the Jinnah papers series brought to light for the first time some letters from Dina to Jinnah. Historian Francis Robinson stated of the exchanges that "the utter certainty of a father's love [is] revealed in the gossipy letters from his daughter, Dina."
 
98years is such a long life to live. Rest in peace great lady.
 
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She was born in England. Jinnah and his second wife were in England at that time because Jinnah was attending some meetings in House of Commons and House of Lords.
 
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Raf Pragmatic said:
Never heard of her! What was she doing in India?
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She lived in India all her life because she was married to an indian and visited Pakistan only twice once when her father died and once in 2004.
 
Inna lillahi wa inna illahi raji'oon
 
Dina about her father...

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WebGuru said:
Dina about her father...
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She is right about one thing. The people of Pakistan do owe Jinnah a huge debt. Pakistan would not have come into being without him.

About Jinnah eating pork, I don't think it is his daughter who was quoted as saying anything about it. It was mostly Jinnah's former colleagues at the Bombay High Court who made that claim. I doubt that all of them are liars.
 
Most people wouldn't approve of their daughter marrying out of the religion especially back in his days, idk why people are acting surprised. It's not a big deal.
 
She lived a long, prosperous and eventful life - the daughter of Pakistan's founder and a celebrity mother, the mother of one of India's richest men. Seems she was quite healthy up until the very end as well.

I was surprised to read that she only visited Pakistan twice - in 1948 and then in 2004.
 
gani999 said:
She is right about one thing. The people of Pakistan do owe Jinnah a huge debt. Pakistan would not have come into being without him.

About Jinnah eating pork, I don't think it is his daughter who was quoted as saying anything about it. It was mostly Jinnah's former colleagues at the Bombay High Court who made that claim. I doubt that all of them are liars.
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Who cares about that, you indians are so weird and nosy and I'd rather take the word of his daughter than some coworkers.
 
I am proud of my grandfather i don't need anyone to write a certificate for him. Nusli reaction to BJP allegations after Jaswant Singh book...

Here is the video clip:

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http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/...-legal-battle-for-jinnah-house/1/1081600.html

Mumbai, Nov 3 (PTI) The seafront bungalow on Malabar Hill built by Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah was at the centre of a prolonged battle between his daughter Dina Wadia and the Indian government.

Wadia died in New York yesterday at the age of 98. Her petition to regain control of her childhood home is still pending for a final hearing the before a division bench of the Bombay High Court.

The palatial Jinnah House, originally known as South Court, was witness to meetings of the Muslim League and a crucial meeting between Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Jinnah before partition.

Wadia, born to Jinnahs Parsi wife, Rattanbai Petit, in London in August 1919, had insisted that the stately house, designed in European-style architecture, be called South Court.

In 2007, Pakistans then president Pervez Musharraf had expressed his desire to acquire the house as Pakistans property to convert it into a consulate.

The same year (in August 2007), Wadia (then 88), knocked the doors of the Bombay High Court with a petition claiming that the title of the mansion be handed over to her as she was the only heir to Jinnah.

Wadia spent many years in Mumbai but had been living in the US for the past few decades. In her petition, she said she wished to spend her remaining years in the house in Mumbai where she had spent her childhood years.

Wadia, in the petition, had claimed that the bungalow could not be classified as "evacuee property" as her father had died without leaving behind a will.

The petition last came up for hearing before a division bench of Justices S V Gangapurwala and A M Badar on July 28 this year which adjourned it simply to September 7. It has not come up for hearing since then.

Soon after her petition was filed, the high court had directed the Union government to file their affidavit in response.
In October 2007, the government filed its affidavit stating that the Jinnah House belongs to the government and that only Jinnahs sister Fatima or her legal heir can claim right over the property.

Wadia had, however, claimed that she was the only heir of Jinnah and hence the title of the house should be handed over to her.
According to Wadia, the (then) state of Bombay took over the property, because Fatima was the trustee of Jinnahs will, and had been declared an evacuee (those who migrated to Pakistan post-partition) in 1949.

Wadia, in her petition, claimed that her fathers will was not probated by the Bombay High Court and therefore had no effect on any operation of law.

Fatima, therefore, could not be the legal owner and so the house should be handed over to his (Jinnah) legal heir.

Also, she (Wadia) is the sole legal heir of Jinnahs property, both under Hindu Law (applicable to Khoja community--to which Jinnah belonged--before Independence) or the Shia Muslim law, her petition claims.

In its reply, the Union government had claimed that her petition is not maintainable and is barred by prolonged and unexplained delay.
The reply filed by G Balasubramanian, deputy secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs, had stated that Government of India had issued a notification on June 27, 1949 under the Bombay Evacuee Property Act, by which the possession of Jinnah House was vested with the Custodian.

On June 10, 1955, another notification was issued under the Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act, by which the right, title and interest was vested in Government of India.

Jinnah had bequeathed the Jinnah House to his unmarried sister Fatima by his will dated May 30, 1939. Fatima migrated to Pakistan at the time of partition and was declared an evacuee and hence the property was taken over by the Indian government under the Bombay Evacuee Property Act, the affidavit filed by the government had said.

In August 2010, the high court had ordered for status quo to be maintained in the matter, but had permitted the Centre to complete the renovation work of the bungalow without making any structural changes.

Wadia wanted the mansion, built by her father in 1936 at a cost of Rs 2 lakh, be called South Court.

In a newspaper interview during a visit to Mumbai in 2008, she had said, when asked about the Jinnah House bungalow in south Mumbai, "Why do you keep calling it Jinnah House? Thats the name the British gave it. Its real name is South Court. Why dont you refer to it by its original name?"

In 2004, she visited Jinnahs tomb in Karachi, along with Nusli and his two sons. In the visitors book, she then wrote, "May his dream for Pakistan come true."
 
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