Who described the people of Hindustan as 'a race of men lamentably degenerate and base'?
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Correct answer: B. Charles Grant
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Charles Grant, Observations on the State of Society among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain (1792), an Evangelical case for English education and missions.
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