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We report rare occurrence of lamprophyre xenoliths within a host lamprophyre from the Dongargaon area, Deccan Large Igneous Province, NW India. The lamprophyre xenoliths are distinct in texture (grain size) as well in mineralogy from those of their host rock. The clinopyroxene (diopside) in the xenoliths is depleted in Ca and Mg but substantially enriched in Fe compared to those in the host lamprophyre. Mica in the xenoliths is a phlogopite whereas that present in the host rock is compositionally a biotite; spinels in the host lamprophyre are relatively enriched in TiO2. As the host lamprophyre dyke has been dated to be of Eocene (ca. 55 Ma) age, the entrained lamprophyre xenoliths are inferred to represent an earlier pulse of lamprophyre emplacement. The recurrent lamprophyre emplacement in this domain is consistent with the recently brought out polychronous nature of Late Cretaceous alkaline magmatism at the Mundwara and Sarnu Dandali complexes in the NW India and is related to the extensional events linked with the reactivation of the Narmada rift zone.