In religious matters, the Garos were animists, focusing on placating the spirits to appease their wrath and satisfy their demands.
They believed in a supreme God, but felt that He was detached from men and was not to be much concerned with, either for good or ill. Ramke himself was a devotional person and, while he was an animist, he was very earnest in catching little animals or birds and sacrificing them to the spirits.
[2] In 1847, the British, who were extending their rule in India, invited boys from the Garo tribe to come down to Goalpara in the valley and receive an education.
As he considered ultimate things, he thought not only of wrath and punishment, but of love and about the great God above everything else.
After praying thus for three days in a row, he received a visitation from Heaven, declaring that his prayer was heard.
Nevertheless, after a while Ramke returned to Omed; they studied Christianity more and were baptized, contrary to the wishes of their wives.
‘On his list were over two thousand two hundred names of those who had found of their Saviour,’ in part, at least, through these personal efforts.” (from “The Garo Jungle Book”, William Carey) He passed to his rest on January 25, 1891.