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Sir John Strachey GCSI CIE (5 June 1823 – 19 December 1907) was a British civil servant and writer in India who served as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces from 1874 to 1876. He was briefly acting Governor-General in February 1872 (following Lord Mayo's assassination ), before being replaced by the more appropriate Lord ...
Evelyn John St Loe Strachey (21 October 1901 – 15 July 1963) was a British Labour politician and writer. A journalist by profession, Strachey was elected to Parliament in 1929 . He was initially a disciple of Oswald Mosley , and, feeling that the Second Labour Government was not doing enough to combat unemployment, joined Mosley in founding ...
Established Statistical Survey of India (1872) [13] Opening of Rajkumar college in Rajkot and Mayo College at Ajmer for political training of Indian Princes; George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll: William Ewart Gladstone: John Strachey (acting) (1823–1907) 9 February 1872: 23 February 1872 Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier (acting) (1819–1898 ...
The Government of India Act 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 106) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on August 2 1858. Its provisions called for the liquidation of the East India Company (who had up to this point been ruling British India under the auspices of Parliament) and the transferral of its functions to the British Crown.
Strachey also edited Malory's Morte d'Arthur (1868, 1891) for the Globe edition; contributed to Richard Garnett's edition of Thomas Love Peacock's works "Recollections" of the author, Peacock having been a colleague of Strachey's father at India House; and wrote an introduction to Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs (1895).
John Strachey may refer to: John Strachey (geologist) (1671–1743), British geologist; John Strachey (civil servant) (1823–1907), British civil servant in India; John Strachey (journalist) (1860–1927), editor of The Spectator; John Strachey (politician) (1901–1963), British Labour politician; John Strachey (priest) (1737–1818 ...
Paradiplomacy may be performed both in support of and in complementarity to the central state conducted diplomacy, or come in conflict or compete with it.In 1990, Ivo Duchacek pointed out a distinction between different types of paradiplomatic engagements: a) cross-border regional paradiplomacy, b) transregional paradiplomacy and c) global paradiplomacy, to describe: a) contacts between non ...
[citation needed] The introduction of separate electorates for Muslims was viewed by the Congress as an imperial attempt at control through an elective policy of divide-and-rule. [ 11 ] The First World War substantially changed Indian expectations for representation, with India providing substantial support for the British war effort in men ...