Personal passions and distances Jinnah’s fairy-tale romance with Ruttie had been marked by marriage five years earlier, on April 19, 1918. The 18-year-old beauty had converted from the ...
Rattanbai (Ruttie) Petit was all of 17 and a daughter of one of Jinnah’s Parsi business associates. The couple eloped, and it was only when news of her having converted to Islamic faith was ...