Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colo ...

Sir Harold Arthur Deane (1854–1908) was an administrator in

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. Deane served as the first Political Agent of the Malakand in 1895 and also as the first Chief Commissioner of the

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upon the creation of the province on 9 November 1901.

Career

Deane was commissioned in 1874 and promoted to captain in 1885 and to Major in 1894. The following year he became the first Political Agent of the Malakand and in 1896 he was appointed a CSI and then promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1900. In 1901 he became the Chief Commissioner of the

following its creation by

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- a position he held until his death in 1908.

Collection

Deanne's remarkable collection of

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and ancient Buddhist and Hindu artefacts, including three rare wooden panels from the Kashmir Smast, is now held by the

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References

Bibliography

* Llewelyn Morgan, Luca Maria Oliveri,
The View from Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara’
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