Bal Gangadhar Tilak's ancient Vedic hypothesis (2 replies)

1)Bal Gangadhar Tilak's two book-length studies I have not seen reflected in discussions on ancient India and origins of civilization. His first book on the ANTIQUITY OF THE VEDAS and his second, ANCIENT ARCTIC HOME OF THE VEDAS, would seem to be very much in line with Hancock's hypotheses. In the latter, he suggested that the VEDIC language, the origin of all modern Indo-European languages, began in THE ARCTIC CIRCLE, at a time when the climate was milder. His book gave his reasoning for this. The undersea city of Dwarka could, thus, represent a slightly younger establishment of this older civilization. Tilak was a very serious person, in fact the founding father of modern India. His investigation suggested that Indian civilization went back AT LEAST 8000 years, and that the Vedic hymns were handed down since then, reflecting a civilization in the high north that migrated south as the climate changed. He suspected that the colonial administration desired to prevent such an hypothesis from being widely known in India, lest it might help the cause for Independence. As a political figure, he saw his hypothesis as part of his fight for Indian independence, giving India an older identity.

2)I also have another matter I have been wanting to ask some one for a long time. When we look at Plato's account of ATLANTIS, with its quote on a land beyond the straits of Gibraltar, is it possible that this was a mis-translation of the Straits of HORMUZ? In other words, is the sunken city of DWARKA Atlantis? It would not be hard in the fog of centuries and mistranslations, for Plato to have been given an account of a land beyond a Strait. Since Europeans only knew of Gibraltar, could some one simply have mis-translated? Maybe we have been looking in the wrong place for Atlantis?