Rutten Bai Petit around the time she married Jinnah in 1918

Rutten Bai Petit around the time she married Jinnah in 1918, originally uploaded by Doc Kazi.

Born a Parsi, she converted to Islam on her 18th birthday and left her father's mansion with two pets only to marry Jinnah. Exactly eleven years later she was dead of an overdose of painkillers to treat her abdominal cancer. Jinnah never married again and died a lonely man. Known as the nightingale of Bombay, Ruttie died on her 29th birthday on 20 February 1929