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In literature and in speaking, India is described as a subcontinent forming the southern part of Asia. Before breaking and drifting away in the Early Permian time, Tibet was a part of Gondwanic India. The microplate of Myanmar separated and moved east towards the Thailand–Malaysia part of the Asian plate sometime later.
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Valdiya, K.S. (2016). Geological Terranes of Indian Continent. In: The Making of India . Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25029-8_2
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