Mohammed Ali Jinnah's Roots can be Traced to Hindu Ancestor in Gujarat

The Hindu Origin of MA Jinnah: Founder of Pakistan

Background

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (December 25, 1876 – September 11, 1948) is a well-known political figure of the sub-continent. He considered himself as the leader of all Indian Muslims and never recognized Gandhi more than a Hindu leader. Jinnah was not the rabid communalist that he became later and started his career as a secularist. He was a prominent figure of the Congress party much before Gandhi came back from South Africa.

Unfortunately for Jinnah, the entry of Gandhi into the Congress party resulted in him being marginalized. He was a ambitious man and realized that he had no place in the Congress party. He thus joined the Muslim league. Jinnah realized that the only way he could move forward was to become the leader of Indian Muslims. This led to his transformation as secularist to a communalist. He began to champion the Muslim cause and in 1942 accepted the concept of Iqbal for a separate homeland for the Muslims. With Gandhi having usurped his role as and position as the great leader of the sub-continent. Jinnah realised that the only way he could survive against Gandhi was by becoming the leader of the Muslims..

Gandhi and Jinnah

Hindu roots of Jinnah

The Hindu roots of Jinnah are a fact of life. His grandfather had taken up the profession of a fish trader out of dire necessity as no other profession was open or available for him. The profession of a fish trader did not go down well with his community. His community was the Lohana and they were all vegetarians They did not like that a member of their own community should trade in fish..

The community asked him to give up his profession and a clash became inevitable. The Lohana’s ostracized him from the community. Premji continued with his fish trade and became rich. Once he had the money he gave up trading in fish and petitioned that he be taken back into the community fold. Unfortunately for Premji the elders of the Lohana community refused to accept him back. This was something Premji had not bargained for and he decided to rebel against his community and part ways with them completely. In this way he expected to get his back to them

Conversion to Islam

The rejection of Premji into the fold of the community hurt him badly. He decided the best way to have his own ego satisfied was to visit the Madrasa's, Muslim schools. His son ( Jinnah's father) named Punjalal Thakur was so enraged that he went a step forward and converted to Islam. He also converted his sons to Islam and gave them Muslim names. However he continued to use his old surname Zino or Jinno . In all aspects he became a believing and practicing Muslim.

Punjalal Thakur's eldest son was Mohammed Ali . He was born a Hindu but as his father converted too Islam he also embraced the Muslim faith. Considering the background of Jinnah, it is difficult to imagine that a man who was born a Hindu became so rabid a communal man and engineered anti Hindu riots in the Punjab. It does not gel with the mans character.

Bangladesh currency, earlier East Pakistan

The psychology of Jinnah

One fact that is the absolute truth is that India was a Hindu Rashtra before the advent of the Muslims. After the arrival of the Muslims about 35% of the population converted to Islam, some by inducement and some by the sword. A few lower castes also converted to Islam. All the Hindu who converted became fanatical Muslims. Jinnah was also part of this ilk and he became a rabid communalist. His call for “direct action" in 1946 saw a great massacre of Hindus and Sikhs take place in areas of Muslim majority.

Personally Jinnah was a secularist, but when he appealed to masses he became a rabid communalist. He was also fond of meat and whiskey. This was a peculiar trait that came to the fore. He became Governor General and realised his dream, but it was a short lived dream as he himself died within 6 months of independence and his two nation theory crashed inside two and half decades of his death.

Militants Destroy Historic House of Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan at Ziarat

Mohammed Ali Jinnah suffered from tuberculosis during his last days. this disease was kept a secret and known only to Jinnah and his doctor. At that time he spent a lot of time at Zairat a hill station 120 km from Quetta. He bought a house there .This building known as the Residency was built in 1892 and was the residence of the Agent of the British Governor General during the days of the Raj Jinnah used to stay at this palatial building. After his death it was converted into a national monument.

.On 15 June last year militants from the Balochistan Liberation army attacked the bungalow and destroyed it. They planted 5 bombs and then opened fire. This building had been declared as a national monument by the Pakistan government.

The Balochistan Liberation army (BLA) are fighting for an independent Balochistan. In the attack one person was killed and the building destroyed with all the memorabilia associated with Mohammed Ali Jinnah.  When the security forces reached the scene the building had been gutted.

The security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search and  hunt operation for the BLA activists. The Chief of Police also informed that the BLA had left behind 6 bombs which were defused. The insurrection in Balochistan has gained momentum after the killing of Bugati, the Balooch leader in a helicopter attack on orders of the the then President general Musharraf. Pakistan has its hands full with extremists fighting in the tribal areas and now the BLA is seeking an independent Balochistan.

This is all very sad as all said and done Jinnah was a towering figure of the sub-continent. he was the creator of Pakistan though he acted on orders of the British government.

Startling Facts : Mohammed Ali Jinnah was Born a Hindu

Jinnah and force of circumstances  created Pakistan. He was also a Muslim who propounded the two nation theory that saw India being carved into two states and a Muslim majority state Pakistan being created with two limbs West and East Pakistan. Both wings were separated by 1500 miles of Indian territory and was thus a artificial creation. In due course of time Jinnah's two nation theory fell apart and East Pakistan broke away from the mother country. Jinnah would be turning in his grace at this turn of events.   However Jinnah for all his communal rhetoric had deep Hindu roots.

He was like Gandhi from Saurashtra. Actually he was just a second generation Muslim as his father Punjalal Thakur converted to Islam and gave his 4 sons Muslim names. Jinnah’s grandfather Premjibhai was a Hindu from the Lohana community. He had been ostracized from the Lohana community as he had taken to the trade of selling and distributing Fish which the vegetarian Lohana community could not stomach. this was like a red rag to a bull and he looked for a way out.

Punjalal (Jinnah’s Father) converted to Islam as he could not stand the insult to his father by the Hindu Lohana community which had not only ostracized him, but refused to accept him back even when he gave up trading in Fish and pleaded to be taken back. This unforgiving attitude had its repercussions and Jinnah’s father converted to Islam and took the name Jinn. Mohammed Ali, when he grew up adopted the name Jinnah and has thus come to be popularly known as Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Thus Jinnah was a Gujarati from Saurashtra like Gandhi and was born a Hindu.

Most Muslims are unaware of this aspect of Jinnah. The fact that he was a born a Hindu rankles the Muslims. Perhaps that is one reason he became a rabid communalist  and brought out the 2 nation theory. He was however not interested in Muslims and in case Gandhi and Nehru had allowed him to be Prime minister of India , there would have been no Pakistan. All this is clearly brought out in " The last days of the British Raj" by Leonard Mosley and " freedom at midnight"