The Anasagar gneiss was emplaced as a concordant sheet like body along the contact of quartzite and pelitic/semipelitic schist horizons in the northern part of the South Delhi Fold Belt. It is typically a granite gneiss containing megacrysts of K-feldspar set in a recrystallised foliated matrix. The megacrysts are in general converted to granular aggregates, often retaining their crystal outline. Garnet, sillimanite (fibrolite) and rarely staurolite are the metamorphic minerals in the gneiss; these are also present in the enveloping supracrustal rocks. Both the gneiss and the supracrustal rocks are involved in polyphase deformation. FI isoclinal folds are present only on minor scale in the supracrustal rocks. F2 major and minor folding have affected both the gneiss and the supracrustal rocks. These are asymmetrical folds with alternate flat and steep, locally overturned, limbs and have consistent easterly vergence. Fa folds are upright and coaxial with F2- F4 puckers and large scale warps have E-W to ESE-WNW subvertical axial planes. The gneiss is exposed in the core of an FS arch on the flat limb of a major Fg antiform whose axial trace is bent by an F4 fold. The intrusion was pre-F2 and late-tectonic with FI. U-Pb zircon dating suggests a crystallization age of 1849 + / -8 Ma. Hence the Anasagar gneiss is older than the late- to post-tectonic "Erinpura-type" granite in the South Delhi Fold Belt.