KAYE, ka, Sir Join WILLIAM ( 1814-T6). An English historian. He was born in Acton, near London. and was the son of a lawyer. After education at Eton and at the Royal _Military College at Addiscombe, he went to India, and from I$32 to 1841 served in the Bengal Artillery, hcemning lieutenant. Ile engaged in journalistic anti literary work in India, and afterwards in England from I545 to 1856, when he rewired an appointment in the home department of the East India Company. The next year India came under the Crown Government, and he was nominated to the Secretaryship of the Indian Political and Secret Service Department. made vacant by the retirement of John Stuart Mill. The leisure of his official life was employed in the writing and pollination of numerous historical, biographical, and other works. lfis writings include: History of the War in. Afghanistan (2 vols.. 1851; later ed. vols- 1874) : The Administration of the
East India Company (185:3) ; Christianity in India (18591: history of the Repay War (3 vols., 185T-58, 5th ed. 1881), revised and republished as Kaye and 17/R/or!' of the Indian Mu tiny (6 vols., 1590) ; Lives of Indian Officers, Illustrative of the History of the Civil and nili ta•y Serriees in India (2 vols.. 1867 : new edition 1880) : and Essays of an Optilnist ( 1870 ) le also edited Buckle's .1/cmuirs of the R, rriees of the Ben grrl (1852) ; Tucker's Memorials of India Government (1353) ; Avlobiogruphy of Miss Cor nelia Knight, Lady Companion to the Princess Charlotte of Males (2 vols., 1861) ; and, with J. F. Watson, Taylor's Peoph. of bidiu (1SGS). In 1871 he was created a Knight Commander of the Star of India. Three years later he resigned his appointment, owing to ill health.