New palaeomagnetic data from the Neoproterozoic felsic volcanic rocks of the Malani igneous suite (MIS) in NW India, combined with data from an earlier study, yield a palaeomagnetic pole with latitude=74.5 o N, longitude=71.2 o E (dp/dm=7.4/9.7 o ). A statistically positive fold test and remanences carried by typical high-temperature oxidation (deuteric) minerals support a primary magnetic signature. U/Pb ages from MIS (771-751 Ma) overlap with those for granitoids and dolerite dykes from the Seychelles microcontinent (mainly 748-755 Ma), and palaeomagnetic data for both entities can be matched with a tight reconstruction fit (Seychelles->India: Euler latitude=25.8 o N, longitude=330 o E, rotation angle=28 o ). In this Neoproterozoic time interval, MIS and the Seychelles must have been located at intermediate northerly latitudes along the western margin of Rodinia, with magmatism that probably originated in a continental arc.The most reliable, dated palaeomagnetic data (+/-756 Ma) from MIS, Seychelles and Australia require a crucial reappraisal of the timing and plate dynamics of Rodinia break-up and Gondwana assemblage. These new data necessitate an entirely different fit of East Gondwana elements than previously proposed, and also call to question the validity of the Southwest US-East Antarctic and Australia-Southwest US models. The palaeomagnetic data mandate that Greater India was located west of Australia rather than forming a conjugate margin with East Antarctica in the Mid-Neoptroterozoic. Break-up of Rodinia along western Laurentia may therefore have taken place along two major Neoproterozoic rifts; one leading to separation of Laurentia and Australia-East Antarctica, and the second between Australia and India.