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The Lost Land of Lemuria : Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories by Sumathi Ramaswamy; Ebrary, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. ** Review "This path-breaking book makes novel and riveting connections between scientists and occultists in the West and Tamil nationalis

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Author

Sumathi Ramaswamy; Ebrary, Inc

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520240322

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Sociology

Rating

3.68 / 5 (24 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13