Sir Edward Charles Kayll Ollivant Template:Postnominals (7 February 1846 – 24 December 1928)[1] was a senior member of the Indian Civil Service. He had notable interactions with both Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammed Ali Jinnah.
Ollivant arrived in India in 1881.[2] In 1892, he had a disagreement in Rajkot with Gandhi,[3] who was then a young barrister.[4] 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.Template:Citation needed
Ollivant also offered to hire Muhammed Ali Jinnah at 1,500 rupees per month, and was notably turned down.Template:Explain
Ollivant was a judicial member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay until April 1902,[5][6] and a director of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway.[7] He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) in 1892.[8]
See also
- Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote, Governor of Bombay (1900–1903)
Notes
- ↑ Sir Charles Ollivant. Geelong Advertiser(16 February 1929). Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ↑ Mentioned in The Nursing Record and Hospital World 7 October 1899 accessed at Royal College of Nursing [1] 3 August 2006
- ↑ [2] Chronology of M.K. Gandhi, South African History Online
- ↑ Wolpert, Gandhi's Passion : The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 31
- ↑ Template:Cite newspaper The Times
- ↑ Template:London Gazette
- ↑ Template:Cite magazine
- ↑ Great Britain. India Office Template:Google books