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{{Infobox person
| name = Henry George Keene
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]]
| image = Henry George Keene 1897.jpg
| birth_date = 1826
| death_date = {{Death date|1915|03|26|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Westward Ho!]], [[England]], [[The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]
| father = [[Henry George Keene]]
}}

'''Henry George Keene''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|CIE}} (1826 – 26 March 1915) was an English historian of medieval and modern India.<ref>{{cite book|author=George Sampson|title=The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PoI6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA912|year=1941|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=912–|id=GGKEY:2J1T4J40K28}}</ref>

==Life==
Keene was born at the [[East India College, Haileybury]]. [[Henry George Keene]] (1781–1864) was his father.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Rugby-School-Register-1675-1842-Volume-1/132288/339|title=Rugby School Register, 1675-1842, Volume 1, Page 339|accessdate=15 June 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref>[[s:The Times/1915/Obituary/Henry George Keene]]</ref>

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 [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]], and with a literary reputation.<ref>Robert Barlow Gardiner, ''The Registers of Wadham College, Oxford'' vol. 2 (1889), pp. 412–3; [https://archive.org/stream/registersofwadha02wadhiala#page/412/mode/2up archive.org.]</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Great Britain. India Office|title=The India List and India Office List for ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA162|year=1819|publisher=Harrison and Sons|page=162}}</ref>

Keene died on 26 March 1915 at his residence in [[Westward Ho!]].<ref name="Obit">{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=29 March 1915|title=Obituary: Henry George Keene, C.I.E. (1915)|work=[[The Times]]|issue=40814|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1915/Obituary/Henry_George_Keene|url-status=live|access-date=}}</ref>

==Works==
Keene's books included:

*''Chabeena. Trivial talk on Indian topics. By a wayfarer'' (1865), as H. G. K.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Henry George Keene the younger|title=Chabeena. Trivial talk on Indian topics.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=myFYAAAAcAAJ|year=1865}}</ref> Contains discussion of [[John Stuart Mill]]'s justification for British rule.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gregory Claeys|title=Mill and Paternalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vex8c73YCS8C&pg=PA100|date=9 May 2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-76108-6|page=100 note 181}}</ref>
* ''Fifty-Seven: some account of the administration in Indian districts during the revolt of the Bengal army'' (1883)
* ''[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn7u2x A Sketch of the History of Hindustán, from the first Muslim Conquest to the Fall of the Mughol Empire]''. London: W. H. Allen & Co. (1885)<ref>{{cite book|author=Waldemar Hansen|title=The Peacock Throne: The Drama of Mogul India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AV--abKg9GEC&pg=PA542|date=1 January 1986|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-0225-4|page=542}}</ref>
* ''[https://books.google.de/books?id=6Jf1J0OP03AC The Fall of the Moghal Empire]'' (1886)<ref>{{cite book|author=Allyn Miner|title=Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4nPHTCS8vfUC&pg=PA246|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-1493-6|page=246}}</ref> or ''The Moghul empire; from the death of Aurungzeb to the overthrow of the Mahratta power''
* (ed.) ''[[An Oriental Biographical Dictionary]]'', based on materials collected by Thomas William Beale (1894) [https://archive.org/details/orientalbiograph00bealrich online]; concerned largely with Islamic Indian biographies.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ronald H. Fritze|author2=Brian E. Coutts|author3=Louis Andrew Vyhnanek|title=Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide|url=https://archive.org/details/referencesources0000frit_a2s9|url-access=registration|year=2004|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-87436-883-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/referencesources0000frit_a2s9/page/321 321]}}</ref>
*''Servant of "John Company"'' (1897)<ref name="Fisher2006">{{cite book|author=Michael H. Fisher|title=Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600-1857|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPHqigUD6FUC&pg=PA454|year=2006|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-7824-154-8|page=454}}</ref>
*''[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015064334454 The Great Anarchy or Darkness before Dawn. Sketches of Military Adventure in Hindustan during the Period immediately preceding British Occupation]''. London: W. Thaker & Co. (1901).
* ''History of India Vol. 1: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Nineteenth Century, for the Use of Students and Colleges'' (1906)
* ''Here and There: Memories, Indian and Other'' (1906)
* ''Hindustan Under Free Lances, 1770-1820: Sketches of Military Adventure in Hindustan'' (1907)<ref name="Fisher2006"/>
* ''Turks in India: Critical Chapters on the Administration of That Country by the Chughtai, Babar, and His Descendants''
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120527005425/http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/4/2/1/14216/14216.htm St George's Cross - An Episode of Channel Island History]''
* ''British Administration During the Revolt of 1857''
* ''Madhava Rao Sindhia and the Hindú reconquest of India''

"Keene's Handbooks" covered a number of Indian cities.<ref>Aparajita Mukhopadhyay, ''Wheels of Change? Impact of Railways on Colonial North Indian Society, 1855–1920'', [http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17363/1/Mukhopadhyay_3526.pdf (PDF)], at p. 115, note 441.</ref> He also wrote for the ''[[Dictionary of National Biography]]'' and ''[[Chambers's Encyclopaedia]]''.<ref>[[s:The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Keene, Henry George]]</ref>

==Family==
Keene was twice married, and was survived by four sons and five daughters. Among his sons were:<ref name="Obit"/>

* 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==
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==External links==
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*[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Keene%2C%20H.%20G.%20(Henry%20George)%2C%201825-1915 Online Books Page]

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