In the Earth’s evolutionary history, Paleo- to Mesoproterozoic period is characterised by the development of several intra-cratonic basins in stable continental shields and platform areas world-wide. Indian subcontinent contains four of them. All these basins came into existence due to sustained rifting and subsidence of the central part of the Indian peninsular shield. Out of these, the Vindhyan basin, located in central India and containing thick sequence of Vindhyan Supergroup of rocks (as much as 7.5 km at some places), is considered one of the largest (1,20,000 km2) Proterozoic basins in the world that seemingly contains clues to the many paleobiological problems. Apparently this region has been subjected to sustained uplift, erosion and magmatism, followed by crustal extension, rifting and subsidence due to episodic thermal interaction of the crust with the hot underlying mantle.This basin apparently evolved as a foreland basin on a rifted Indian crust, caused by continued crustal extension. Geophysicall, this basin is well studied.