“…The position and participation of the Greater India landmass within the Rodinia supercontinent has been widely questioned (Bhattacharya et al, ; Dalziel, ; Gregory et al, ; Hoffman, ; Kröner & Cordani, ; Li et al, , ; Malone et al, ; Mezger & Cosca, ; Moores, ; Pisarevsky et al, ; Powell & Pisarevsky, ; Radhakrishna & Mathew, ; Torsvik et al, ; Torsvik, Ashwal, et al, ; Torsvik, Carter, et al, ; Weil et al, ). In this connection the tectonics of northwestern India has been extensively discussed and debated (Buick et al, ; Bhowmik et al, ; Chatterjee et al, ; Deb et al, ; Pandit et al, ; Singh et al, ; Tiwari & Biswal, ). Palaeomagnetic studies in the ~750 Ma Malani Igneous Suite (MIS) (Eby & Kochhar, ; Pandit et al, ; Pareek, ; Torsvik, Carter, et al, ) in the Marwar craton suggest that MIS‐Seychelles‐North Madagascar was a coherent terrane separated from the remaining parts of the present‐day Peninsular India at ~750 Ma (Torsvik, Ashwal, et al, ; Torsvik, Carter, et al, ; Tucker et al, ).…”