Myths of submerged land off the coast of India lead to speculations of Lemuria

Buried somewhere in the Indian Ocean, in the vast 4,200 mile expanse between Madagascar and Australia, is supposed to be the resting place of  the lost continent of Kumari Kandam, which, according to ancient Tamil literature, some believe is the lost continent of Lemuria.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Tamil nationalists came to identify Kumari Kandam with Lemuria, a hypothetical “lost continent” posited in the 19th century to account for discontinuities in biogeography. In these accounts, Kumari Kandam became the “cradle of civilization”, the origin of human languages in general and the Tamil language in particular.

Kumari Kandam- The Lost Continent