Keshav was the last surviving member of the Indian hockey team which participated at the 1948 London Olympic Games.

[5] He moved to Bombay and later settled in Kolkata in 1950 at a time when his birthplace Lahore (which later became part of Pakistan after it gained independence in 1947) endured post-independence riots in 1948.

[9] He was part of the Indian team captained by Dhyan Chand which toured East Africa to play in a hockey tournament in 1947.

[10][11] He was the vice captain of the Indian team at the 1952 Summer Olympics where India secured gold medal in the final against the Netherlands with a comfortable 6–1 win.

He played a key role during the 1952 Beighton Cup where Mohun Bagan emerged as winners for the first time in the tournament history.