Sir Michael Keane KCSI, CIE (14 June 1874 – 10 August 1937) was a British colonial administrator in India. He was

Governor of Assam This is a list of governors of Assam, and other offices of similar scope, from the start of British occupation of the area in 1824 during the First Anglo-Burmese War. The governor of Assam is the nominal head of the Indian state of Assam. The ...

from 1932 to 1937. Educated at

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and

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, Keane entered the

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by examination in 1897 and arrived in India on 21 November 1898. He first served in the

North-Western Provinces The North-Western Provinces was an Presidencies and provinces of British India, administrative region in British Raj, British India. The North-Western Provinces were established in 1836, through merging the administrative divisions of the Cede ...

as assistant magistrate and collector, and assistant settlement officer. He was under-secretary to the government from April 1906 to November 1907. In February 1908 he became a joint magistrate. From December 1910 to January 1915 he was on deputation to

Tonk State Tonk was a princely state in India under the supervision of the Rajputana Agency of the British Raj. It was located primarily in the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan with small portions in Madhya Pradesh. The town of Tonk, which was the ...

and Sirohi State.

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