Dubois is remembered in India for having adopted the way of life, clothing, vegetarianism and language typical of a Hindu monk or renunciate, and earning trust and respect.

[1] He abjured European society, adopted the native style of clothing, and made himself in habit and costume as much like a Hindu as he could.

Elijah Hoole of the Wesleyan Mission records meeting Abbe Dubois on Saturday 4 August 1821 at Seringapatam.

Although Dubois disclaimed the title of author, his collections were not so much drawn from the Hindu sacred books as from his own careful and vivid observations, and it is this, united to a remarkable prescience, that makes his work so valuable.

The book contains three parts: Lord William Bentinck purchased Dubois's French manuscript for eight thousand rupees for the British East India Company in 1807.

[1] Sylvie Murr has claimed that Dubois' Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies derived from Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux's original manuscript, Mœurs et coutumes des Indiens, now lost.