"A significant section of early Englishmen in India also found in Indian culture “a deep and appealing wisdom.” John Z. Holwell , in his Interesting Historical Events, relative to the Provinces of Bengal and the Empire of Indostan , declared that “the world does not now contain annals of more indisputable antiquity than those delivered down by the ancient Brahmins.” He avowed that the people “from the earliest times have been an ornament to the creation if so much can with propriety be said of any known people upon earth."
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