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Fabulous Geographies Catastrophic Histories

 
Sumathi Ramaswamy (Author)
Synopsis This exceptionally innovative exploration of the historical imagination – in India and elsewhere – looks at ideas about vanished homelands, hidden civilizations, and forgotten peoples. During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa. Much like Atlantis, Lemuria is supposed to have been submerged by the oceans long ago. This elegantly written books is the first to explore Lemuria’s incarnations across cultures, from colonial period science, to European and American occultism, to histories and mythologies in Tamil. Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories is a provocative and unusually imaginative book about Utopian ideas, poetry, nostalgia, and the envisioning of loss; and of how such sentiments are a part of the condition of modernity.
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About the author

Sumathi Ramaswamy

Sumathi Ramaswamy is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; editor of Beyond Appearances; Visual Practices, and Ideologies in Modern India (2003); and author of Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 (1997).

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syed - fabulous geographies catastrophic histories Jan, 01, 1970
 

It's a wounderful book the last land of lemuria

Bibliographic information

Title Fabulous Geographies Catastrophic Histories
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.2005
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Permanent Black
Language: English
isbn 9788178241104
length xviii+334p., Maps; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
Subjects History