**2.1 Pre-break up stage**

Before the initial break up in the Permo-Triassic pre-breakup stage, the Eastern Gondwana mega-plate was stretched by far-field crustal distension when the intracratonic rifted basins of Gondwana were formed. In the Indian craton, the rifting occurred mostly in the eastern part of the craton (**Figure 2**) as the extensional stress developed mostly between India and Australo-Antarctican plates [3].
