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Jinnah’s rise had seemed unstoppable, but in 1918 he had scandalised Bombay high society by courting Ruttie Petit, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a Parsi baronet and one of the most ‘envied debutante[s] of her generation’.20 The patriarch of the family, Sir Dinshaw Petit, happened to be a vocal supporter of interfaith marriages, believing like many liberals at the time that they would be vital in gluing India into a single nation. When forty-two-year-old Jinnah had asked to marry his teenage
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― Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
― Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
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Ladies and Gentlemen , we learned democrary 1,300 years ago. It is in our
blood and it is as far away from the Hindu society as are the Arctic
regions. You tell us that we are not democratic. It is we(Muslims), who have
learned the lesson of equality and brotherhood of man . Among you(Hindus) one
caste will not take a cup of water from another . Is this democracy? Is this
honesty? We are for democrary. But not the democrary of your conception which
will turn the whole of India into a Gandhi Ashr
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