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India has it's own tectonic plate. It is not tectonically connected to the Eurasian plate. When the India plate crashed into the Eurasian plate, this formed the Himalayan Mountains. India is still moving closer to into the Eurasian plate today, and this is how the Himalayas are still growing.

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