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'''Sir Edward Charles Kayll Ollivant''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCIE}} (7 February 1846 – 24 December 1928)<ref>{{cite news |title=Sir Charles Ollivant |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/geelong-advertiser/169636382/ |access-date=5 April 2025 |work=Geelong Advertiser |date=16 February 1929}}</ref> was a senior member of the [[Indian Civil Service]]. He had notable interactions with both [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and [[Muhammed Ali Jinnah]].<br />
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Ollivant arrived in India in 1881.<ref>Mentioned in ''The Nursing Record and Hospital World'' 7 October 1899 accessed at Royal College of Nursing [http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME023-1899/page294-volume23-07thoctober-1899.pdf] 3 August 2006</ref> In 1892, he had a disagreement in [[Rajkot]] with Gandhi,<ref>[https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/mohandas-karamchand-gandhi-mahatma-gandhi-timeline-1890-1899] Chronology of<br />
M.K. Gandhi, South African History Online</ref> [[Mahatma Gandhi#Early life|who was then]] a young barrister.<ref>Wolpert, ''Gandhi's Passion : The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi'', Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 31</ref> The incident resulted in Gandhi being pushed out of a room, and ill feelings about this dispute were apparently a factor in Gandhi's departure for South Africa in 1893.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}<br />
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Ollivant also offered to hire [[Muhammed Ali Jinnah]] at 1,500 [[rupee]]s per month, and was notably turned down.{{Explain|date=October 2019}}<br />
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Ollivant was a judicial member of the [[Bombay Legislative Council|Council]] of the Governor of Bombay until April 1902,<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |date=18 March 1902 |page=10 |issue=36718}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27424 |page=2416 |date=11 April 1902}}</ref> and a director of the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Foreign News: Indian Interview |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,722367,00.html |access-date=20 March 2022 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=30 August 1926}}</ref> He was knighted as a [[Order of the Indian Empire|Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]] (KCIE) in 1892.<ref name=List>Great Britain. India Office {{google books|b2NPAAAAMAAJ|The India List and India Office List for 1905|page=145}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote]], Governor of Bombay (1900–1903)<br />
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