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During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the first to explore Lemuria's incarnations across cultures, from Victorian-era science to Euro-American occultism to colonial and postcolonial India. The Lost Land of Lemuria widens into a provocative exploration of the poetics and politics of loss to consider how this sentiment manifests itself in a fascination with vanished homelands, hidden civilizations, and forgotten peoples. More than a consideration of nostalgia, it shows how ideas once entertained but later discarded in the metropole can travel to the periphery-and can be appropriated by those seeking to construct a meaningful world within the disenchantment of modernity. Sumathi Ramaswamy ultimately reveals how loss itself has become a condition of modernity, compelling us to rethink the politics of imagination and creativity in our day.

Civilization, Ancient. --- Tamil (Indic people) --- Lost continents. --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Ethnology --- Continents --- Geographical myths --- Ancient civilization --- History. --- Tamil Nadu (India) --- Lemuria. --- Civilization. --- africa. --- anthropology. --- antiquity. --- archaeology. --- art history. --- atlantis. --- australia. --- charles darwin. --- civilization. --- colonial. --- colonialism. --- darwinism. --- ethnography. --- evolution. --- geographic. --- geography. --- geology. --- grief. --- himalayas. --- indian ocean. --- lemuria. --- loss. --- maps. --- occult. --- occultism. --- pacific ocean. --- racism. --- regional. --- tamil. --- tibet. --- utopian. --- world history. --- Lemuria --- Atlantis --- Victorian-era science --- Euro-American occultism --- colonial India --- postcolonial India --- hidden cilizations --- mythological places

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