Caroe, Olaf, 1892-1981
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Name (Latin)
Caroe, Olaf, 1892-1981
Other forms of name
Caroe, Olaf Kirkpatrick, Sir, 1892-
Caroe, Olaf Kirkpatrick, Sir
Date of birth
1892-11-15
Date of death
1981-11-23
Associated country
Great Britain
India
Field of activity
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration
Asia
Associate group
Indian Civil Service
Tibet Society of the United Kingdom
Royal Central Asian Society
Conservative Commonwealth Council (Great Britain)
Occupation
Colonial administrators
Asianists
Middle East specialists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- His Wells of power, 1951:title page (Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, viewed October 11, 2013(Caroe, Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse; educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, entering in 1911; spent the War in India; in 1920 he returned to India as a member of the Indian Civil Service; appointed governor of the North-West Frontier Province in 1946; in retirement Caroe championed Tibetan independence and, after the Lhasa uprising of 1959, founded the Tibet Society of the United Kingdom. He was also a leading member of the Royal Central Asian Society and the Conservative Commonwealth Council)
- Soviet Empire, the Turks of Central Asia and Stalinism, 1953:title page (Olaf Caroe)
- The poems of Khushhal Khan Khatak, 1963:title page (Olaf Caroe)
- Thee Pathans, 550 B.C.-A.D. 1957, 1958:title page (Olaf Caroe)
- Wikipedia, viewed October 11, 2013(Olaf Caroe ; Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse Caroe, KCSI, KCIE (15 November 1892-23 November 1981) was an administrator in British India. He later became a writer on the Middle East and Asia)
- His Wells of power, 1951.