"Should any European enter their houses, they imagine them to be the polluted: neither will they eat or drink anything that has been touched by Europeans, or even Moors, who they hate ā and not without reason, for they are a lazy, haughty people, oppressing without mercy where they have any power."
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Anonymous, A Voyage To Calcutta In 1761, author unknown , quoted from Jain, M. (editor) (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. New Delhi: Ocean Books. Volume IV
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