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Historical Geology of India is a text book for graduate and post-graduate students of geology, geophysics and other earth sciences for Indian Universities. It also caters to the universities of USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada as one or two credit courses on regional studies are included in the curriculum. Besides it can be useful to professional geologists and geophysicists working on various projects in India. The book has been specially designed to cover the course content of major Indian Universities and the approved syllabi of the University Grants Commission. This book has not been written in the classical style of what is where and when was it formed; instead there has been an attempt to base the entire history on the time control as available from latest data on high resolution stratigraphy through fossil content, radiometric dating and palaeomagnetic studies. There is a special focus on the tectonic history of the entire subcontinent through time from Precambrian times to present day.

1. Stratigraphic Concepts

Stratigraphic principles; Uniformitarianism and catastrophism; Geologic Time Scale; Stratigraphic Classification; Concept of facies; Correlation; Radiometric dating; Magnetic Stratigraphy.

2. Physiography of India

Tectono-stratigraphic divisions of the Indian Subcontinent; Himalayan Mountain Belt; Peninsular India; Indo-Gangetic Plain (Northern Plain); Desert region; The islands.

3. Peninsular Archean and Proterozoic Crystalline Rocks

Archean and Proterozoic Crystalline Rocks in India; Dharwar Craton; Bastar Craton; Singhbhum Craton; Bundhelkhand Craton; Aravalli Craton; Peninsular Mobile Belts.

4. Proterozoic Peninsular sedimentary basins

Peninsular topography during Proterozoic; Distribution of Peninsular sedimentary basins; Vindhyan basin; Cuddapah basin; Chhattisgarh basin; Other Proterozoic basins.

5. Precambrian Rocks of Himalaya

Older crystalline rocks; Proterozoic basins of the Himalayan region; Palaeogeography of the Indian subcontinent in Late Proterozoic

6. Phanerozoic Sedimentation and Transgressive Events

Pattern of sedimentation; Paleozoic marine sedimentary cycles; Mesozoic marine sedimentary cycles; Cenozoic sedimentary cycles.

7. Ediacaran and Cambrian Sedimentary Cycle

Stratigraphic setting; Lower Cambrian sequence of lesser Himalaya; Cambrian sequence of higher Himalaya; Precambrian–Cambrian boundary; Culmination of Ediacaran–Cambrian cycle.

8. Post Cambrian Paleozoic Stratigraphy

Post-Cambrian Cycles in Paleozoic sequence; Ordovician-Middle Silurian Cycle in higher Himalaya, Devonian break in Himalaya; Early and Middle Carboniferous transgressive cycle; Late Carboniferous break and its significance; Permian transgressive cycle; Trans-Himalayan Paleozoic sequence.

9. Gondwana Sedimentation

Nomenclature and significance; Distribution and extent; Classification; Gondwana life; Conditions of deposition: Lower Gondwana; Upper Gondwana.

10. Mesozoic marine sequence

Permian–Triassic Boundary; Mesozoic sedimentation and climate; Triassic and Early Jurassic sedimentation in Himalaya; Jurassic–Cretaceous sequence in Himalaya: Jurassic–Cretaceous coastal facies.

11. Deccan Volcanics and Related sediments

Nomenclature and distribution; Lithology and petrological characters; Cause of Deccan volcanism; Deccan volcano-sedimentary sequences; Age of Deccan volcanicity; Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary.

12. Cenozoic Sedimentation

Distribution of Cenozoic rocks; Higher Himalayan Paleogene intra-montane basins; Western Himalayan frontal zone; Eastern Himalayan frontal zone; Paleogene-Early Neogene sedimentation in western basins; Paleogene-Early Neogene sedimentation in southern basins; Cenozoic rocks of Andaman and Nicobar islands; Pliocene-Pleistocene Boundary; Pleistocene–Holocene deposits.

13. The Siwalik and related Sedimentation

Nomenclature and distribution; Classification; Time of Siwalik deposition and correlation; Lithology and Petrography; Fauna; Siwalik sedimentation and tectonics.

14. Tectonic evolution of Indian sub-continent

Evolution of the Indian shield; The Indian shield before and during Paleozoic; The Gondwana super-continent; Collision and subduction; Rise of the Himalaya; Neotectonic activity.

APPENDIX I. Phanerozoic Stratigraphic Time Scale

APPENDIX II. Selected Bibliography