Olaf Caroe

Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse Caroe (* November 15, 1892 in London, † November 23, 1981 in the UK ) was a civil servant in British India, later the author of several books on the Middle East and Asia.

Life

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

After the Second World War was Caroe Governor of the North-West Frontier Province, now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the period from 1946 until 1947. In this position, he was accused by representatives of the Congress party, the Muslim League, which advocated a separation of India and Pakistan to very close to stand, and replaced. After his return from India, he began with the analysis of historical and contemporary developments. His books were in their time of origin of major influence on the British and U.S. South Asia policy.

Awards and honors

• Knight Commander of the Star of India
• Knight Commander of the Indian Empire

Publications

• Wells of Power. The Oilfields of South - Western Asia. A Regional and Global Study. Macmillan, London 1951 New edition: with an introduction by Lionel Curtis. Hyperion Press, Westport, Connecticut, USA 1976, ISBN 0-883552841.

• New edition: with a Foreword and Epilogue to on Russia. Karachi, Oxford University Press 1983, ISBN 0-19-577221-0.