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It must be admitted that the laws of etiquette and social politeness are much more clearly laid down, and much better observed by all classes of Hindus, even by the lowest, than they are by people of corresponding social position in Europe.

— Jean-Antoine Dubois

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And there is no stronghold of evil so impregnable as Brahmins.

With such simple tools the patient Hindu, thanks to his industry, can produce specimens of work which are often not to be distinguished from those imported at great expense from foreign countries.

[Dubois opined that Bible translations will] ‘expose the Christian religion and its followers to the ridicule of the public’.

In 1823, Dubois published a book titled—‘Letters on the State of Christianity in India’, which contained a short phrase—‘In which the conversion of the Hindoos is considered as impracticable’.

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