CHAOS AND COSMOS
C.N. Venugopal
Witchcraft in Western India by Sohaila Kapur Orient Longman, Bombay, 1984, 146 pp., 50.00
March-April 1984, volume 8, No 5

The book under review pro¬vides a series of interesting vignettes on witchcraft in Western India, mainly the coastal region stretching through Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala and Karnataka. Kapur, a journalist by profession, undertook investigative visits to various places in this region during 1978. For her it must have been a journey of adven tureexciting as well as appalling.

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