until Gondwana began to break up about 200 Ma (million years before present). As you can see in this animation of former plate positions, India, along with Madagascar and the Seychelles/Mascarene ...

Laurasia, the northern half, broke up into North America and Eurasia. Gondwana, the southern half, began to break up by the mid-Jurassic. The eastern portion—Antarctica, Madagascar, India ...