This book is one of the rare collections where black magic, occult practices and witchcraft are recorded and academically analyzed.

There is a perception that the region of north-east India maintained its ‘splendid isolation’ and remained outside the reach of the Mughals and did not have a pre-colonial past. This book is an attempt to decenter and demolish the said perceptions.

This book is an effort to provide an informed historical and cultural appreciation of the role and contribution of missionary endeavors in British India.