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First postulated in the midnineteenth century by geographers biologists and evolutionary theorists as an explanatory mechanism for the similarity of flora and fauna found in southeastern africa madagascar and the indian subcontinent lemuria captured the attention and imagination of occultists like helena petrovna blavatsky who saw the sunken land mass as the primordial home of a divinely engendered humankind as well as nascent tamil nationalists eager to promote the notion of a vast tamil empire now lost whose sole contemporary remnant is the tamilspeaking regions of southernmost india and northern sri lanka