.....India adrift - How? - Where?

Earth expansion:- closing up the Indian Ocean according to simple retrofits on transform faults brings India adjacent to Madagascar.

Fig.1  India adrift - according to Plate Tectonics, ...and the Indian Ocean spreading ridge.   So how, in its tectonic perambulations from 'way down there' (light brown location), did India manage to hop across the spreading ridge of the Indian Ocean?
 
 

Palimpsests of the west coast of India occur symmetrically about the spreading ridge of the Indian Ocean Fig.1b), placing the original position of India adjacent to the east coast of Madagascar, i.e., south of the line of Red Sea - Gulf of Aden - which is the line of the Indian Ocean spreading ridge.  So how (in Plate Tectonics) did India cross the ridge from its original position against Madagascar to its present-day position against the Himalayas?   Moreover, ..what ridge?  In its present position the west coast of India is parallel to the present ridge, but in Plate Tectonics there is no ridge that relates to the two earlier positions.

That's if India originally lay against Madagascar.  But exactly the same question arises if we use the present consensus position of India against Ethiopia. In either case India lay south of the current spreading ridge.

Or, to put it another way, ...in Plate Tectonics, where, and in what orientation was the current spreading ridge when India started its so-called 'migration' to collide with Asia?  Was there a spreading ridge in fact?  Or was something else happening? ...something more like Earth expansion says?

Sure was.  The whole global caboodle of expansional deformation that affects all the other continental - oceanic margins, .. but that is particularly evident in the Indian Ocean.