Charles Ollivant

Sir Edward Charles Kayll Ollivant KCIE (1846–1915) 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.[1] In 1892, he had a disagreement in Rajkot with Gandhi,[2] who was then a young barrister.[3] 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.

Ollivant also offered to hire Muhammed Ali Jinnah at 1,500 rupees per month, and was notably turned down.

Ollivant was a judicial member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay until April 1902,[4][5] and a director of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway.[6] He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) in 1892.[7]

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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. Wolpert, Gandhi's Passion : The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 31
  4. The Times. No. 36718. London. 18 March 1902. p. 10. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. "No. 27424". The London Gazette. 11 April 1902. p. 2416.
  6. "Foreign News: Indian Interview". Time. 30 August 1926. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  7. Great Britain. India Office The India List and India Office List for 1905, p. 145, at Google Books
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