Henry George Keene (1826–1915)

Henry George Keene CIE (1826 – 26 March 1915) was an English historian of medieval and modern India.

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 * Indian annals  for  the  next  century  were  to  be  written  in  blood.  During  a  reign  of  thirty  years  Mahmud  the  Iconoclast  invaded  India  no  less  than  twelve  times,  causing  carnage  wherever  he  was  resisted,  desecrating  the  Hindu  temples  and  destroying  their  idols.  Mathura,  in  the  centre  ;  Kanauj,  in  the  east ;  Somnath,  the  gloomy  shrine  of  Siva,  on  the  coast  of  Kathia  war;  in  such  distant  and  divergent  spots  he  smote  the  Rajput ;  Mathura,  or  "  Muttra,"  was  sacked  in  1017,  Kanauj  in  the  following  year.  Somnath,  which  was  under  the  sovereignty  of  the  Chalukya  House  of  Kalian,  was  captured  after  an  assault  of  three  days'  duration.  This  was  in  1025,  when  the  great  statue  of  Mahadeo  is  said  to  have  been  destroyed,  and  the  doors  of  his  temple  carried  away  to  fill  the  gateway  where  the  conqueror  was  to  be  entombed.
 * History of India" https://archive.org/stream/historyofindia01keeniala/historyofindia01keeniala_djvu.txt