KEANE. Lord John Keane, an officer of the British army, born 1781, was Commander-in-Chief, Bombay army, from 2d July 1834 to 14th February 1840. In 1839, commanded the army' sent by the British against Afghanistan, then ruled by Host Muhammad Khan. lie led the army through the territories of Bahawulpur, skirted the Sikh posses sions, crossed, near Sabzalkot, the frontier of Sind, and passed the Indus at Bukkur. The army was then led north-westerly though Shikarpur, Baug, Darfur, to the north of the Bolan pass, entering which it was harassed by 31elimb Khan, the chief of Kalat. The army with Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk was favourably received at Kandahar, and, after a halt there of two months, it recommenced its march on the 27th June 1839. On the 23d of July it captured the fortress of Ghazni between 3 and 5 A.NI., and on the Gth August it appeared before Kabul. Shah Shuja was declared ruler, and 1)ost Muhammad Khan fled. After this Sir John Keane returned to India, leaving an army of 8000 British sepoy soldiers at Kabul, and garrisons at Ghazni and Kandahar. In December 1839 he was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as Baron Keane. Died 24th August 1844.
A. II. Keane, in the latter part of the 19th century, a voluminous learned writer on educa tional, geographical, philological, and ethnological subjects, mostly relating to the countries of Eastern and Southern Asia, and to the races inhabitihg them. Amongst others, on India and Further India, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Persia, Turkey, Arabia ; in 1882, an eucyclopmdic work on Asia, containing the results of the most recent researches ; on the Indo-Chinese and Inter Oceanic Races and Languages, Types and Affin ities; Philology and Ethnology of the Inter-Oceanic Races, with papers on Khorasan, Khuzistan, and Baluchistan ; Korean, Aino, and Afghan Ethno logy; Malayo-Polynesian Linguistics; Hindustani Notes; on the Georgians, Kazak, Laos, and Turko man ; the Samoan Language,—as Sir Richard Temple says, all evincing a remarkably compre hensive knowledge of the ethnology and geography of Asia. ' J. F. Keane travelled to Mecca in 1877-78 as Ilaji Muhammad Amin ; subsequently to Medina.