Bengali periodical debates over planchette and spirit communication

Record summary

Bengali literary and intellectual circles used planchettes and séance practices to communicate with purported spirits, generating memoirs, periodical discussions and skeptical commentary. Rabindranath Tagore and other prominent figures are sometimes associated with this milieu, but individual participation and quotations need documentary verification. The lead is useful for comparing automatic writing, family séance testimony and cultural translation between Western spiritualism and Bengali religious concepts. It is a research direction requiring identification of specific periodicals and dates.