author
Sir John William Kaye
1814–1876
A soldier turned historian, he spent years in India before becoming one of the best-known British writers on the East India Company and the 1857 uprising. His books mix firsthand administrative experience with a Victorian taste for big, dramatic history.
3 Audiobooks
History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 3 (of 3) Third Edition
by Sir John William Kaye
History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 2 (of 3) Third Edition
by Sir John William Kaye
History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition
by Sir John William Kaye
About the author
Educated at Eton and the East India Company's military college at Addiscombe, he went to India in 1832 as an officer in the Bengal Artillery. Ill health led him out of active military service, but India remained at the center of his working life and writing.
He became known as a journalist, editor, civil servant, and especially as a historian of British India. Among his best-known works are The History of the War in Afghanistan, Lives of Indian Officers, and his major study of the 1857 uprising, The History of the Sepoy War in India, later expanded and continued by George Bruce Malleson.
Kaye also served in the India Office in London and was honored late in life with a knighthood. For listeners interested in nineteenth-century empire, military campaigns, and the British view of India, he remains an important and revealing voice from his time.