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After passing through the East India Company College, Strachey entered the Bengal civil service in , and served in the North-Western Provinces, occupying many important positions. In , Lord Canning appointed him president of a commission to investigate the great cholera epidemic of that year. In he became judicial commissioner in the Central Provinces.

In , after the report of the royal commission on the sanitary condition of the army, a permanent sanitary commission was established in India, with Strachey as president.

Hastings and the Rohilla War. by: Strachey, John, Sir, Publication date: Topics: Hastings, Warren, , India -- History.

In , he became Chief Commissioner of Oudh, having been chosen by Lord Lawrence to remedy as far as possible the injustice done after the Indian rebellion of by the confiscation of the rights of tenants and small proprietors of land, maintaining at the same time the privileges of the Talukdars of great landlords. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.

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