ABSTRACT
Jinnah’s visit to Europe in the summer of 1928 differed from his previous visits since his student days. For one thing, it was unplanned; its immediate provocation was Ruttie’s decision to leave his roof and to sail for Paris with her mother on 10 April. The state of Ruttie’s physical and mental state doubtless weighed on Jinnah’s mind, but he was also extremely worried about the political situation in the homeland. In May 1928 the Bombay meeting of the All-Parties Conference, which Jinnah could not attend, appointed a committee of ten members, with Motilal Nehru as chairman, ‘to consider and determine the principles of constitution for India’.Motilal Nehru had been very keen to secure Jinnah’s attendance at the Lucknow meeting of the All-Parties Conference in August and had even postponed it for a few days to fit in with Jinnah’s expected return, but Jinnah changed his programme because of his wife’s illness.
