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Tracing the sediment delivery from its source terrain to its ultimate sink envisage multiple factors that play a vital role in understanding present day erosional engine. To accomplish this, it is significant to distinguish the variable end-members contributing to the basin. The findings from the study of dryland coastal fluvial regime in Kachchh (Western India), which is one of the end members contributing to the Gulf of Kachchh coast (partial sink) and finally to the Arabian Sea (ultimate sink) have been presented here. Multi-proxy sediment provenance proxies such as grain-size, clay minerals, geochemistry and magnetic minerals have been employed to evaluate the provenance discriminating characteristics of the Kachchh dryland fluvial system and factors influencing them. The results of different proxies indicate that the provenance signatures of uplands are quite characteristic with magnetic susceptibility (χ) values of