Dina's grandfather Jinnahbhai Poonja, was a prosperous merchant, and his family belonged to the Khoja caste, Hindus who had converted to Islam centuries earlier and who were followers of the Aga Khan. Her maternal grandparents were Parsi and had disowned her mother, Rattanbai, when she married Jinnah and converted to Islam. Her paternal grandparents were from Gujarat and had moved to Karachi for business in the mid-1870s, where her father, Jinnah, was born. Her father, Jinnah, and her aunt, Fatima, are each important historical figures who started the Pakistan movement. Jinnah's struggle for Muslims eventually led to the creation of Pakistan in 1947, with founder Jinnah as its first Governor General of Pakistan. Jinnah and Fatima were also bestowed with the titles "Father of the Nation" and "Mother of the Nation", respectively.