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Henry George Keene
Born 1826 Died (1915-03-26 ) 26 March 1915Parent
Henry George Keene
CIE (1826 – 26 March 1915) was an English historian of medieval and modern India.
[1]
Life
Keene was born at the
East India College, Haileybury .
Henry George Keene (1781–1864) was his father.
[2] He was educated at
Rugby School and
Wadham College, Oxford , going to India as an
East India Company employee in 1847. His career as an official was limited, but he began to write.
[3]
From 1847 to 1882 Keene served in the
Bengal Civil Service . During the
Indian Rebellion of 1857 he was Superintendent at
Dehra Doon . In his subsequent service Keene was in frequent disagreement with his superiors, and when he reached the 35 years' limit he had not got beyond the grade of a district and sessions Judge. He retired with the decoration of
CIE , and with a literary reputation.
[4]
[5]
Keene died on 26 March 1915 at his residence in
Westward Ho! .
[6]
Works
Keene's books included:
"Keene's Handbooks" covered a number of Indian cities.
[13] He also wrote for the
Dictionary of National Biography and
Chambers's Encyclopaedia .
[14]
Family
Keene was twice married, and was survived by four sons and five daughters. Among his sons were:
[6]
Henry George Keene of the Indian Financial Department
Colonel Alfred Keene, D.S.O., editor of the Journal of the
National Service League
Captain Geoffrey Keene, 29th Punjabis.
Notes
^ George Sampson (1941).
The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature . CUP Archive. pp. 912–. GGKEY:2J1T4J40K28.
^
"Rugby School Register, 1675-1842, Volume 1, Page 339" . Retrieved 15 June 2014 .
^
s:The Times/1915/Obituary/Henry George Keene
^ Robert Barlow Gardiner, The Registers of Wadham College, Oxford vol. 2 (1889), pp. 412–3;
archive.org.
^ Great Britain. India Office (1819).
The India List and India Office List for ... Harrison and Sons. p. 162.
^
a
b
"Obituary: Henry George Keene, C.I.E. (1915)" .
The Times . No. 40814. 29 March 1915.
^ Henry George Keene the younger (1865).
Chabeena. Trivial talk on Indian topics .
^ Gregory Claeys (9 May 2013).
Mill and Paternalism . Cambridge University Press. p. 100 note 181.
ISBN
978-0-521-76108-6 .
^ Waldemar Hansen (1 January 1986).
The Peacock Throne: The Drama of Mogul India . Motilal Banarsidass. p. 542.
ISBN
978-81-208-0225-4 .
^ Allyn Miner (1 January 1997).
Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries . Motilal Banarsidass. p. 246.
ISBN
978-81-208-1493-6 .
^ Ronald H. Fritze; Brian E. Coutts; Louis Andrew Vyhnanek (2004).
Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide . ABC-CLIO. p.
321 .
ISBN
978-0-87436-883-3 .
^
a
b Michael H. Fisher (2006).
Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600-1857 . Orient Blackswan. p. 454.
ISBN
978-81-7824-154-8 .
^ Aparajita Mukhopadhyay, Wheels of Change? Impact of Railways on Colonial North Indian Society, 1855–1920 ,
(PDF) , at p. 115, note 441.
^
s:The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Keene, Henry George
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