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[[Lieutenant-Colonel]] '''Sir Harold Arthur Deane''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCSI}} (1854–1908)<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=P7717 National Register of Archives]</ref> was an administrator in [[British Raj|British India]]. Deane served as the first Political Agent of the [[Malakand Agency|Malakand]] in 1895<ref>Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia, By Victoria Schofield</ref> and also as the first Chief Commissioner of the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955)|North-West Frontier Province]]<ref>[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V19_194.gif Administration, North-West Frontier Province - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 19, p. 188.]</ref> upon the creation of the province on 9 November 1901.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=V2nGnWXV7coC&pg=PA87 The History of British India: A Chronology By John F. Riddick]</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Deane was commissioned in 1874 and promoted to captain in 1885 and to Major in 1894. The following year he became the first Political Agent of the Malakand and in 1896 he was appointed a CSI and then promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1900. In 1901 he became the Chief Commissioner of the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955)|North-West Frontier Province]] following its creation by [[Lord Curzon]] - a position he held until his death in 1908.<br />
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==Collection==<br />
Deanne's remarkable collection of [[Gandharan]] and ancient Buddhist and Hindu artefacts, including three rare wooden panels from the [[Kashmir Smast]], is now held by the [[British Museum]].<ref>[https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?people=141321&peoA=141321-3-13 British Museum Collection]</ref><br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
* Llewelyn Morgan, Luca Maria Oliveri, ''[https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803272078 The View from Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara’]'' (Oxford, 2022)<br />
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