Jinnah family



The Jinnah family (Urdu:خاندان جناح; Gujarati:) was a political family of the Indian Subcontinent. Its most notable member is Muhammad Ali Jinnah the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah family is related to Petit family through Maryam Jinnah (Jinnah's wife), and Poswal family through Dina Jinnah (Jinah's daughter). Dina had a rift with her father when she expressed her desire to marry a Parsi, 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, a Parsi. His matriline descendants through her are part of the Wadia family and reside in Mumbai, India as she married and stayed in India after the Partition of India in 1947.