Abstract Singhbhum Craton (>3500 Ma), the Archean continental nuclei of eastern India, preserves on its southern margin coexisting deep crustal granulites and shallow crustal metasedimentary lithologic units that were juxtaposed through complex transpressional tectonics. U-Pb detrital zircon ages were obtained from five samples of widely separated locations of two parallel belts, which are known as the Northern and the Southern Supracrustal Belts. In addition, zircon grains from a pegmatite from the central gneissic complex were also dated. The LA-ICP-MS derived U-Pb age data from these samples lead to the estimation of age of sedimentation and the thermal events in the provenance. The U-Pb age from these samples yielded younger than 2235 ± 28 Ma for Northern Supracrustal Belt, while that of the Southern Supracrustal Belt is consistently younger (