The 1920s–1930s Bengal planchette and postmortem-writing culture

Record summary

Planchette, automatic writing, and informal séance practices appeared in Bengali urban literary and domestic culture during the early twentieth century, often alongside ghost stories, memorial practices, and discussions of Western spiritualism. This lead should be approached through named Bengali periodicals, memoirs, fiction, household recollections, and any surviving séance notebooks rather than as one single event. It can illuminate how spirit communication was localized through language, kinship, and literary culture. The extent and social distribution of the practice remain unevenly documented.