The 1886–1887 Society for Psychical Research investigations of Indian occult claims

Record summary

Proceedings and Journal correspondence of the Society for Psychical Research included reports from British India concerning apparitions, clairvoyance, dreams, yogic powers and alleged occult feats. These items matter because they show nineteenth-century attempts to compare culturally specific reports with European psychical-research categories. They are identifiable through named correspondents and publication issues, but they are not one unified investigation. Each case needs separate checking for witness identity, firsthand status, timing and whether the report was merely repeated from Theosophical or colonial sources.