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Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse Caroe KCSI, KCIE (1892-1981) was a British administrator in India. The article is about the order of chivalry known as Star of India. For other items of the same name, please see disambiguation at Star of India. ...
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Life He was Governor of the North-West Frontier Province, from 1946 to before the Partition of India in 1947. Subject to accusations he was too close to the Muslim League[1], he encountered opposition from Congress Party politicians[2], and was replaced mid-1947 by Rob Lockhart acting as Governor. For the 1959 British film see Northwest Frontier The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) (Urdu: shemaal maghribi sarhadi soobe شمال مغربی سرØدی صوبÛ) is the smallest of the four main provinces of Pakistan. ...
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The All India Muslim League (Urdu: مسلم لیگ), founded at Dhaka in 1906, was a political party in British India that developped into the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state from British India on the Indian subcontinent. ...
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Son of the architect William Douglas Caroe, he was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read classics. He served in the army in the Punjab in World War I, and joined the Indian Civil Service in 1919.[3] William Douglas Caroe (1857 – 1938) was a British architect, particularly of churches. ...
Winchester College is a well-known boys independent school, and an example of an English public school, in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, England. ...
College name Magdalen College Latin name Collegium Beatae Mariae Magdalenae Named after Mary Magdalene Established 1458 Sister college Magdalene College, Cambridge President Professor David Clary FRS JCR President Jessica Jones Undergraduates 395 MCR President Eloise Scotford Graduates 230 Location of Magdalen College within central Oxford , Homepage Boatclub Magdalen College (pronounced...
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Indian Civil Service, popularly known by its acronym ICS, was the elite civil service of the Indian Government. ...
He subsequently held a number of positions in the Indian Political Service, where he was influential in foregn policy, and an active administrator in North-West Frontier Province.
After returning from India in 1947, he wrote extensively. His strategic ideas proved influential:
| “ | At about this time there were those in Washington, looking for ways to secure the oil resources and practice containment in the middle east. The formulations of Sir Olaf Caroe attracted attention and soon found favour in official circles. His article in the March 1949 number of Round Table and his 1951 book, Wells of Power, led to invitations from the state and defence departments to visit Washington.[4] | ” |
Works - Soviet Empire: The Turks of Central Asia and Stalinism (1953)
- The Pathans 550 B.C.-A.D. 1957 (OUP, Karachi, 1958)
Reference - Peter John Brobst, The Future of the Great Game: Sir Olaf Caroe, India's Independence, and the Defense of Asia (University of Akron Press, 2005)
Notes - ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ Brobst, p. xvi.
- ^ The Making of US Foreign Policy for South Asia (PDF), Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph.
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