Jal R. Patel

Jal R. Patel
Born (1910-10-21)October 21, 1910
India
Occupation Physician
Awards

Jal Ratanji Patel was an Indian physician, who attended to Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan,[1] during the years the latter was being treated for cancer.[2] Patel, who was born into a Parsi family,[3] kept Jinnah's disease a secret which had impact on the Partition of India. In his book Freedom at Midnight, Dominique Lapierre claimed that Patel had handed over a confidential file pertaining to Jinnah,[4] and that Patel kept his patient's condition a secret on the patient's advice.[5] The Government of India awarded Patel Padma Bhushan, the third highest Indian civilian award, in 1962.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1938-, Singh, Jaswant, (2010). Jinnah : India, partition, independence. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195479270. OCLC 611042665.
  2. ↑ Date, Vidyadhar (August 21, 2002). "Jinnah portrayed as anti-hero". The Times of India. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  3. ↑ Newspaper, From the (2013-05-27). "Jinnah's doctor a Zoroastrian". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  4. ↑ "Jinnah Zoroastiran Community". www.parsinews.net. August 28, 2013. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  5. ↑ M. Naeem Qureshi (September 10, 2015). "11 September 1948: Death Anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah". Youlin Magazine. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  6. ↑ "Padma Awards". Padma Awards. Government of India. 2018-05-17. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
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