Caroe, Olaf, 1892-1981
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Fuller Name
- Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse
Variants
- Caroe, Olaf Kirkpatrick, Sir, 1892-
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1892-11-15
Death Date
- 1981-11-23
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Indian Civil Service
- Organization: Tibet Society of the United Kingdom
- Organization: Royal Central Asian Society
- Organization: Conservative Commonwealth Council (Great Britain)
Associated Locale
- Great Britain
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration
(naf) Asia
Occupation
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Earlier Established Forms
- Caroe, Olaf Kirkpatrick, Sir, 1892-
Sources
- found: His Wells of power, 1951:title page (Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe)
- found: Soviet Empire, the Turks of Central Asia and Stalinism, 1953:title page (Olaf Caroe)
- found: Thee Pathans, 550 B.C.-A.D. 1957, 1958:title page (Olaf Caroe)
- found: The poems of Khushhal Khan Khatak, 1963:title page (Olaf Caroe)
- found: 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)
- found: 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)
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Change Notes
- 1980-06-25: new
- 2023-09-06: revised
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