“…With the varying chronological resolution, the central India (Sinha et al, 2007(Sinha et al, , 2011, lesser Himalaya (Kotlia et al, 2015;Sinha et al, 2015) and Arabian Sea (Chauhan et al, 2010;Gupta et al, 2003) records demonstrated a declining ISM with the onset of MWP followed by ISM strengthening during MWP (Dixit and Tandon, 2016). In general, the MWP of the last millennium has been identified as ISM strengthening period as suggested by marine (Agnihotri et al, 2002(Agnihotri et al, , 2003aChauhan et al, 2010;Gupta et al, 2003) and continental (Banerji et al, 2017(Banerji et al, , 2019Quamar and Chauhan, 2014;Rawat et al, 2015b;Rühland et al, 2006;Sridhar, 2009) records which was followed by ISM weakening by the end of MWP (Dixit and Tandon, 2016). In addition, the studies have also demonstrated the occurrence of major droughts during both onset and closing of MWP from central India (Sinha et al, 2011) which nearly corroborated well with the oxygen isotope-based stalagmite study from Andamans (Laskar et al, 2013b) and marine records from the Arabian Sea (Tiwari et al, 2005a).…”