For instance, Charles Grey, who had held the office of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in India, had hoped that the diverse legal systems of Bharat would witness gradual consolidation with the increase in the number of ‘native Christians, British and Colonial persons, and foreigners’, ‘a result which must gradually take place’. His views were quoted with approval on 13 June 183335 by Charles Grant, one of the leading proponents of Christian missionary activity and ‘social reform and education’ in Bharat
