Olaf Caroe

Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse Caroe (born November 15, 1892 in London , † November 23, 1981 in Great Britain ) was an administrative officer in British India , who later became the author of various books on the Middle East and Asia .

Life

Caroe is the son of the architect William Douglas Caroe. He received his education at Winchester College and then Magdalen College Oxford . He served in the Punjab Province of British India during World War I and was then hired as a civil servant by the Indian Civil Service in 1919. During his years of service, he became an influential advisor to the colonial government in various positions within the Indian Political Service . From 1937 to 1938 he was Chief Commissioner of Balochistan (German: Baluchistan ) in the extreme southwest of the Indian Empire .

After the Second World War , Caroe became governor of the North-West Frontier Province , now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , from 1946 to 1947. In this position, representatives of the Congress Party accused him of joining the Muslim League , which advocated the separation of India and Pakistan to be very close and was relieved. After his return from India he began to analyze historical and contemporary developments. His books were of great influence on British and US South Asian politics when they were written.

Awards and honors

• Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (1944)
• Knight Commander des Order of the Star of India (1945)

Publications

• Wells of Power. The Oilfields of South-Western Asia. A Regional and Global Study . Macmillan, London 1951
  • New edition: with a foreword by Lionel Curtis. Hyperion Press, Westport, Connecticut, USA 1976, ISBN 0-883552841 .
• Soviet Empire: The Turks of Central Asia and Stalinsm , Macmillan, London 1953.
• The Pathans 550 BC-AD 1957 . Macmillan, London 1958 ( at Internet Archive )
  • New edition: with a Foreword and an Epilogue on Russia . Oxford University Press, Karachi 1983, ISBN 0-19-577221-0 .
• From Nile to Indus: Economics and Security in the Middle East . Conservative Party Political Center, London 1960.
• The Geography and Ethnics of India's Northern Frontiers . In The Geographical Journal 126 (3), 1960.

literature

• Peter John Brobst: The Future of the Great Game: Si Olaf Caroe, India's Independence, and the Defense of Asia . University of Akron Press, 2005.
• Geoffrey Wheeler: Sir Olaf Caroe, KCSI, KCIE, D.LITT. (Obituary), in: Asian Affairs, Vol. 13 (1982), Issue 1, pp. 115-116 doi : 10.1080 / 03068378208730062