officially accepted as his birthday. Jinnah was the eldest of seven children born to Mithibai and Jinnahbhai Poonja. His father, Jinnahbhai (1857–1901), was a prosperous Gujarati merchant who had moved to Sindh from Kathiawar , Gujarat before Jinnah's birth. [5] [6] His grandfather was Poonja Gokuldas Meghji, [7] a Hindu Bhatia