Casting the Evil Eye: Witch Trials in Tribal India

The book is a marvellous attempt by the author to throw light on the subject of witch-hunting which is less or never talked about. Today’s least opposed or concerned form of violence contradicts our modernised world. Witch hunts and witch trials manifest that two worlds exist, ignorant of each other. One world is our world of modernity, technologically sound, elitist, capitalist, urbanised and developed while the other is where women are being murdered in the name of belief and religion. A murder without guilt and remorse. A murder, where the victim is criminalised while the criminal is portrayed as the victim. ‘Casting the Evil Eye’, reflects the tribal society of Jharkhand and the need of tribal feminism. It questions the existing theories and norms of feminist scholars according to whom women’s empowerment comes through economic, political and civil rights.