Who asserted: “There is no middle state in India”? 

Bernier

The correct answer is Option 1 - Bernier

François Bernier stated “There is no middle state in India.”

Bernier described Indian society as consisting of undifferentiated masses of impoverished people, subjugated by a small minority of a very rich and powerful ruling class. Between the poorest of the poor and the richest of the rich, there was no social group or class worth the name. Bernier confidently asserted: “There is no middle state in India.”