The protracted tectonic history concerning the northern edge of the pre‐Himalayan proto‐Indian plate margin during the Neoproterozoic time has been a long‐standing subject of debate, with various hypotheses enduring over several decades. Although a continental rift to passive margin setting has been proposed for the deposition of Neoproterozoic rocks of the Outer Lesser Himalayan Sequence (OLHS), the similarity in detrital zir...