Charles Ollivant
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Sir Edward Charles Kayll Ollivant Template:Postnominals (7 February 1846 – 24 December 1928)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Mentioned in The Nursing Record and Hospital World 7 October 1899 accessed at Royal College of Nursing [1] 3 August 2006</ref> In 1892, he had a disagreement in Rajkot with Gandhi,<ref>[2] Chronology of M.K. Gandhi, South African History Online</ref> 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.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,<ref>Template:Cite newspaper The Times</ref><ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and a director of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) in 1892.<ref name=List>Great Britain. India Office Template:Google books</ref>
See also
- Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote, Governor of Bombay (1900–1903)
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