B.K. Chakrabarti Ph.D. is an Emeritus Scientist with the Geological Survey of India and a Sir J. Coggin Brown Gold Medalist for his work on Precambrian geology. Dr. Chakrabarti served with the Geological Survey of India for 35 years and has published more than 30 articles on the subject. He was also a Fellow at the W.B. Academy of Science & Technology in Kolkata, India. Now retired, Dr. Chakrabarti is also editing a book on the Precambrian of the Indian Peninsula to be published by the Indian Journal of Geosciences.
"""The book is a welcome addition to a series of classics.…The author provides a synoptic view of the geological framework that highlights the key similarities and differences among the major rock sequences along and across the Himalayan strike constrained with recent geochronological data. The book would likely equip the students and the researchers to better comprehend the evolution of this complex orogen...."" --Prof. M Joshi"