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Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse Caroe KCSI KCIE (15 November 1892 – 23 November 1981) was an administrator in British India. He later became a writer on the Middle East and Asia. ==Life== He was Governor of the North-West Frontier Province, from 1946 to just before the Partition of India in 1947. Subject to accusations that he was too close to the Muslim League,〔(Facts are sacred, chapter18: Mountbatten Gets to Work by Khan Abdul Wali Khan - Awami National Party )〕 he encountered opposition from Congress Party politicians,〔(The force Badshah Khan built: Review by Parshotam Mehra - Tribune India )〕 and was replaced in mid-1947 by Rob Lockhart as Governor. Son of the architect William Douglas Caroe, and Grace Desborough Rendall, he was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb206-liddlecollectionind08 )〕 where he read classics. He served in the army in the Punjab in World War I, and joined the Indian Civil Service in 1919.〔Brobst, p. xvi.〕 He subsequently held a number of positions in the Indian Political Service, where he was influential in foreign policy, and an active administrator in North-West Frontier Province. After returning from India in 1947, he wrote extensively. His strategic ideas proved influential: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Olaf Caroe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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