This article offers a first survey of a novel genre of grimoires published in Urdu-reading India in the early twentieth century. It contained a wide selection of magic material from Islamicate and Tantric sources as well as Western parapsychology and spiritualism. Its applications ranged from remedies of last resort in illness, relationship troubles, and other life problems to common household cures and magical tricks performed for pleasure alone. Produced and read by members of all religious groups in North India, this material indicates important changes in popular attitudes towards magic. Magic by no means declined at the beginning of the twentieth century, but flourished as a viable commercial print genre that became increasingly detached from religion.

本文首次对二十世纪初在印度乌尔都语阅读地区出版的一种小说类型的魔法书进行了调查。它包含大量来自伊斯兰和密宗来源以及西方超心理学和招魂术的魔法材料。它的应用范围从治疗疾病、人际关系问题和其他生活问题的最后手段到常见的家庭疗法和纯粹为了娱乐而表演的魔术。该材料由印度北部所有宗教团体的成员制作和阅读，表明民众对魔法的态度发生了重要变化。魔术在二十世纪初并没有衰落，反而作为一种可行的商业印刷类型蓬勃发展，并且越来越脱离宗教。