The Vindhyan basin is one of the few proterozoic basins in peninsular India which has been studied for more than a century since the time of Thomas Oldham (1856). This was followed by the monumental work of F.M. Mallet (1869) and J.B. Auden (1933) that provided the basic data for all the subsequent studies. Since then many workers have pursued their studies on the Vindhyans from varied approaches as the perspectives in sedimentary geology and tectonics evolved ...
