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KEENE (H.G., CIE)
A Servant of John Company, Being the Recollections of an Indian Official.
1st Ed., xviii+337pp., portrait frontis., 6 plates. Thacker, Spink & Co., London & Calcutta.
1897
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Henry George Keene, Ed. at Rugby, Oxford & Haileybury, entered ICS in 1847, served in N.W. Provinces & retired in 1882 (Buckland refers). Contains an account of his career on the Frontier & travels elsewhere in India, observations on the Britsih & the governance of the HEIC, a short chapter on the circumstances of the Indian Mutiny (Raugh, no. 6558, states: "Keene served as Superintendent of the Dehra Dun District during the Indian Mutiny"); Ladendorf (306) adds: "Includes one short chapter on the Mutiny. Author discusses causes of the Mutiny & gives a few anecdotes of his experiences at Doon in Rajputana." Orig. red cloth, gilt to front & sp., little rubbed/worn, sp. sunned, generally near VG & very sound throughout. See illustration on our website.
£65
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