Charles Ollivant

Sir Edward Charles Kayll Ollivant KCIE (b. 1846) was a senior member of the Indian Civil Service who made a mark in his dealings with two notable politicians.

Ollivant had arrived[1] in India in 1881. By 1892, he was Political Agent in Rajkot and had a notable disagreement[2] with Mohandas Gandhi who was then a young barrister.[3] The incident resulted in Gandhi being pushed out of the room, and ill-feeling was apparently a factor in his departure for South Africa in 1893.

Ollivant was knighted as a Knight Commander of the KCIE in 1892. He was a judicial member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay until April 1902.[4][5] It was Ollivant who offered to hire Jinnah at 1,500 rupees per month and was notably turned down.

Ollivant is also known to have been a director of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway.[6]

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  1. ↑ Mentioned in The Nursing Record and Hospital World 7 October 1899 accessed at Royal College of Nursing 3 August 2006
  2. ↑ Chronology of M.K. Gandhi, South African History Online
  3. ↑ According to Stanley Wolpert, Gandhi's Passion : The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 31, Ollivant was then forty-eight years old.
  4. ↑ The Times (36718). London. 18 March 1902. p. 10. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ "No. 27424". The London Gazette. 11 April 1902. p. 2416.
  6. ↑ Mentioned in Time magazine article, 30 August 1926
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