The palaeomagnetic results obtained from India indicate that in the past, the Indian land mass has moved:

Answer: (a) northward

Palaeomagnetic records show India drifted north from Gondwana until it hit Asia.

The idea

Some minerals preserve the direction of Earth’s magnetic field when a rock forms. That direction helps estimate the rock’s former latitude and orientation. Comparing rocks of different ages can reveal a continent’s journey, even after its present position has changed.

Lava cools → Magnetic minerals align with the field → The alignment becomes locked in the rock → Measure rocks of different ages → Estimate their former latitudes → Reconstruct plate movement

Also know

India separated from Gondwana and crossed the former Tethys Ocean before colliding with Eurasia. Alternating magnetic bands on either side of mid-ocean ridges are another use of rock magnetism: they record field reversals and sea-floor spreading. A magnetic reversal is a change in field polarity, not the physical flipping of a continent.