India, which at first sight might appear an improbable candidate, has not escaped the attention of Atlantis seekers. Interest in the region was boosted by the investigations of Graham Hancock and recorded in his book Underworld. This prompted the establishment of a web site(a) dedicated to the subject.
Further interest was generated by suggestions that the Indus Valley civilisation in neighbouring Pakistan and western India could also have an Atlantis connection.
An Indian researcher, P. Karthigayan, presented a paper to the 2005 Atlantis Conference on Melos entitled ‘The Origin of the Atlantis Civilisation through Tamil literary evidences’. Another Indian, Amlan Roychowdhury, an anthropologist, proposes(b) that the Vedic culture of India is a remnant of Atlantean civilisation.
Martin Freksa has a totally different view of where India fits into the Atlantis saga by maintaining that Atlantis, while pursuing world domination, was destroyed by atomic weapons aboard missiles launched by India around 3000 BC.
(a) http://www.india-atlantis.org/
