**1. Introduction**

Crustal plates are styled by the intra-plate stress depending on overall plate dynamics, i.e., break up by stretching, drifting by horizontal forces, and collision/ subduction by convergence. The Indian plate is no exception to this. The structural framework of the Indian plate evolved since its break up from the African plate in Late Jurassic, subsequent northward drift and final collision with the Eurasian plate on the north in Middle Eocene and with Indo-Sinian plate on the northeast in Late Oligocene [1, 2]. Geodynamics of the plate created internal stress activating faults in the pre-existing structural fabric of the Precambrian-Archaean shield. During the break-up stage, when the Indo-African plate was undergoing far-field crustal distension, the intra-cratonic rift basins were formed in Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous time. In Late Cretaceous post break up crustal rebound and slab-pull towards the north caused trailing edge uplift that aborted the rifting followed by basin uplifts. Drifting motion induced divergent trans-tensional stress on the reactivated faults. Collision and post-collision continued subduction generated compressive stress over the entire plate. This resulted in inversion of the rifted structures. In this paper, we discuss the development of the active tectonic zones (TZ; **Figure 1**) due to varying plate motion during different tectonic set-up and present neotectonic inversion stage.
