Mr Jinnah's only regret

When Mr Jinnah left for Pakistan in August 1947, he first visited a Bombay cemetry where he was leaving behind a part of himself. As usual he was alone. The grave was that of Ruttie Jinnah, his wife who died in 1929 of an overdose of painkillers to fight cancer

Jinnah sees off Gandhi at his Bombay home

"You have mesmerized the Muslims", claimed Gandhi. Jinnah retorted, "You have hypnotized the Hindus". 

Mr Jinnah's secretary K H Khurshid can also be seen here.

Mr Jinnah in his study

'He labored at his briefs day and night. There was never a word of gossip about his private life. A figure like that invites criticism particularly in this lazy East where we find it easier to forgive a man for his faults rather than for his virtues'. A comment of a law colleague on Jinnah during his early days as a Barrister in Bombay.

Mr. Jinnah and Miss Fatima jinnah with their friends in Bombay

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Quaid-e-Azam with Field Marshal Auchinleck and Admiral Jefford

also seen in the picture are Fatima Jinnah and col (later Major General) Shahid Hamid.
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Mr. Jinnah presiding over a joint meeting of Indian National Congress and All India Muslim League in 1916.

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Mayor of Karachi Hakim M Ahsan hosts a reception for the Governor General of Pakistan

This was on 25th August 1947
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Another picture of Miss Dina at Hampstead in 1931

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Miss Dina Jinnah - beloved daughter of Mr Jinnah

Born on 15 August 1919

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I Beg Your Pardon - I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

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Mr Jinnah deliberating whether or not to pluck a rose. He had a dream - we all combined to mess it up.

Quaid-e-Azam's last public appearance on 1 July 1948 at the opening of the State Bank of Pakistan

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"You might lose the whole of Pakistan" - Mountbatten yelled at Jinnah

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Despite Mountbatten's insistence to be Governor General of both India and Pakistan, Mr Jinnah refused him the honour in Pakistan. Earlier the earl asked him, Do you know what this might cost him. Jinnah replied a few thousand square miles. Mountbatten went red in the face and replied You might lose the whole of Pakistan! True to his word he took every step to strangle Pakistan in its infancy. He fell victim to a IRA bomb while yachting with his family in 1979. Here both the Governors General are seen in the constitutent assembly of Pakistan in Karachi on 14 August 1947 and their body language says it all!

Mr. Jinnah with Lord Pethick Lawrence and Mr A V Alexander

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The Cabinet Mission came to India in 1946 but could not achieve a consensus and failed miserably. Its chief quickly acquired the name Lord 'Pathetic' Lawrence

The 3rd June Plan - Nehru, Mountbatten and Jinnah

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On 3 June 1947 all the Indian leaders got together and put their seal on the Partition Plan. Seated by the map on the wall is Lord Ismay, Mountbatten's Chief of Staff who probably tampered with the Radcliffe Award and gave Gurdaspur to India to keep the two new countries in a perpetual state of war over Kashmir till eternity!

Quaid-e-Azam meeting supporters at Quetta Railway Station in 1945

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Perhaps the first 'Train March' in our history

Subhas Chandra Bose with Mr. Jinnah

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An ICS officer from Bengal, S C Bose (1897-1945) resigned from service and was twice elected president of the Congress but had to quit due to ideological differences with Gandhi and Nehru. He later became President of the Indian National Army during World War II. He travelled to Germany but disillusioned with Hitler, he moved to Japan and fought for the independence of India from British rule. Here he is seen in a meeting with Mr Jinnah. Bose commonly known as Netaji in India is believed to have died in an air crash on 18 August 1945 over Taiwan but his death is shrouded in mystery. He may have died as a Russian PoW in Siberia.

A rose between two thorns

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Mr Jinnah's first meeting with the new viceroy Lord Mountbatten was a disaster. "It took most of the interview trying to unfreeze him" remarked Mountbatten afterwards. But at the end of the meeting things got better because a group photograph had to be taken and assuming that Edwina Mountbatten would be in the center Mr Jinnah planned that we would remark 'a rose between two thorns'. Apparently Mr Jinnah was placed in the center but he passed the remark anyway causing some laughter. The relations of the two men never improved significantly though. All the rest is history!

Mr. Jinnah talking to Louis Fischer of Time magazine in 1945

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Mr. Jinnah with friends

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I got this rare photgraph from Mahmood on Victoria Road. He could not identify the others although the man in the center resembles the Nawab of Jungadh. The British General is Douglas Gracey. Mr Jinnah seems in a relaxed mood ostensibly with his favorite 'Craven A' cigarettes, which finally got him.

Mr. Jinnah on a car ride with a Parsi friend

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No the child is not Ruttie or is she? Actually I thought so ages ago because a book of Mr Jinnah's photographs edited by Mr Rafiq Akhtar gave the identity of the driver as Sir Dinshaw Petit. Shagufta Yasmeen who wrote the first biography of Ruttie Jinnah told me it was not Ruttie. And now its been confirmed. Jinnah's friend here is Pestonjee H J Rustomjee and the child is Homi Rustomjee.