Referring Clues

• "The Jungle Book" setting
• "Gandhi" setting
• Kipling story setting
• Kind of rubber
• Most populous member of the British Commonwealth
• "Gunga Din" setting
• Calcutta's home
• Forster novel setting
• Neighbor of Pakistan
• It has 25 states
• Forster subject
• 12-Across's locale
• Kind of ink
• Gandhi's land
• It's heavily Hindu
• Kipling setting, often
• Pekoe production place
• Place for a sacred cow
• E. M. Forster subject
• Land of a billion
• Da Gama's destination
• Delhi's land
• Salman Rushdie's birthplace
• British Commonwealth member
• Home to over a billion
• ___ rubber
• Frequent customer support locale nowadays
• Home to more than a billion
• Its national anthem is "Jana Gana Mana"
• Where mahouts toil
• Home of Chennai
• Sepoy Rebellion site
• Locale of many outsourced jobs
• "Gunga Din" locale
• Punjab's place
• Antagonist in 2002 headlines
• Setting for many of Kipling's stories
• Home of the Taj Mahal
• Poona's place
• Land of the Raj
• Home of the Pearl Mosque
• Kipling's birthplace
• Kipling's homeland
• It's between Pakistan and Bangladesh
• Hyderabad's land
• Calcutta's country
• Land of the Taj Mahal
• Country between Pakistan and Bangladesh
• Country with castes of thousands?
• Kind of ink or rubber
• Where a customer support call may be received
• Where to spend a rupee
• Home of Bollywood
• Where the Ganges flows
• Destination of Vasco da Gama
• Home to more than a billion people
• Agra's country
• Nagaland land
• Home to the Taj Mahal
• Sari state?
• With 25-Across, singer of "Beautiful Flower"
• Ashley's sister in "Gone With the Wind"
• Ashley's sister, in "Gone With the Wind"
• Nepal's southern neighbor
• Ashley Wilkes's sister
• Where rupees are spent
• It has 28 states
• Where Darjeeling is
• Columbus's elusive destination
• Its flag features the dharmachakra symbol
• Agra's land
• Nehru's land
• Mumbai's land
• Populous country
• Where Columbus meant to go
• Delhi's country
• "The Jungle Book" setting
• Where a 13 Down is worn
• Destination for da Gama
• Kipling hangout
• Where New Delhi is
• New Delhi's nation
• Nepal neighbor
• Where to spend rupees
• New Delhi's country
• Subcontinental nation
• Pearl Mosque country
• It's called Bharat by its natives
• Sari site
• Columbus' 1492 destination
• Secondmost populous place
• Nepal's neighbor
• Punjab locale
• Number two in population
• "Gunga Din" setting
• Da Gama destination
• Second-most-populous country
• New Delhi is its capital
• Where rajahs ruled
• Bangalore's land
• "A Passage To ___" (1984)
• Mahout's place
• Where to look for sacred cows?
• Mumbai's country
• "Song of ___" (Rimsky-Korsakov)
• Country of over one billion
• Home of the sacred cow
• Leading tea producer
• Second most populated country
• Neighbor of China
• Neighbor of Bhutan
• Birthplace of Merle Oberon
• Passage country?
• Jaipur's locale
• Bollywood setting
• Home to 1.1 billion
• Taj Mahal home
• Its flag has a 24-spoke wheel in the center
• It precedes Juliet
• ... golf, hotel, ___, Juliet, kilo ...
• Where to eat biryani
• Mumbai's nation
• Pakistan neighbor
• Raja's land
• 'The Jungle Book' setting
• Variety of ink
• Agra is there
• Ink variety
• Ink type
• 'Gunga Din setting'
• Where 88-Downs are worn
• Delhi locale
• Calcutta site
• Agra locale
• Taj Mahal locale
• Forster's "A Passage to ___"
• "A Passage To ___" (1984 film)
• Krishna's land
• "Slumdog Millionaire" setting
• Country with a saffron, white, and green flag
• I for ___ ;or Taj Mahal locale
• Neighbor of Nepal
• "Outsourced" setting
• Calcutta's land
• Neighbour of Bhutan
• Asian country
• Large Asian nation
• Homeland of 17 Across
• Thackeray's birthplace
• World powerhouse in cricket
• Gandhi's homeland
• Lucknow's land
• Where Madras is?
• Where Madras is
• Guru's domain
• Guru's domain
• Where Columbus wanted to go
• Bengal tiger's home
• With 30-Across, black writing fluid
• ___ ink
• Jaipur locale
• Where Goa is
• Rajah's land
• The jewel in the crown
• Lotus Temple setting
• Setting for "Slumdog Millionaire"
• Second most populous country
• International powerhouse in cricket
• Bangladesh neighbor
• 2011 Cricket World Cup winner
• Where the British Raj ruled
• Bollywood land
• Bhopal locale
• Where many customer care calls are answered
• Gandhi's home
• Taj Mahal country
• Former part of the British Empire
• "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" setting
• Assam's home
• Vasco da Gama's destination
• Taj Mahal's country
• Where rajahs once ruled
• Country of over 1 billion
• "Slumdog Millionaire" country
• Land of Chennai
• Chennai's land
• Where Uttar Pradesh is
• *Origin of the game Parcheesi
• 29-state country
• Bollywood's home
• 1-Across' country, often
• Home of Hyderabad
• Setting for much of the movie "Lion"
• New Delhi's land
• Delhi's home
• Second-most-populous nation
• World's most populous democracy
• Ashley Wilkes sister, in "g.w.t.w."
• "A Passage to ___"
• South Asian country
• Country seen when one's left Indonesia
• Land at the end of a passage?
• Country that has to help Northern Ireland in return
• Country with the national anthem "Jana Gana Mana"
• Uttar Pradesh's country
• Chennai is there
• One of the BRICS countries
• Gandhi's nation
• Setting of 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire
• Soul singer Arie
• Country George Harrison visited
• R&B singer Arie
• Neo soul star Arie
• Second most populous country in the world
• Comms code for I
• Country is now delivering immensely accomplished leaders
• Country taking in reciprocal aid
• Juliet's predecessor: one needing first aid, on reflection
• Find FIFA banning all females in Asian country
• One close to London gets support coming up from the country
• Type of paper, rubber etc
• Vast territory summarised in main diagonal
• As communicated by pilot, I land in Asia
• Thin sort of paper in Asian atlases
• Country
• Eastern country returns help to Ulster
• Home help is back in the country
• South Asian republic
• Subcontinent
• Land essential to find, I assume
• Country of a certain diameter
• Nation whose anthem is "Jana Gana Mana"
• Populous Asian country
• Large percentage of mankind I assume here?
• One's going from country to country
• Source of paper, ink and rubber
• Country's aid in disarray
• Taking into account every capital, if New Delhi is anyone's, it's mine!
• Nation in plan to lose weight
• Territory some 1,500 miles in diameter
• Test side batting needs help in upset
• Tibet neighbor
• Sari country
• Kipling story locale
• Its flag features the Ashoka Chakra
• Thar Desert's home
• Neighbor of 1 Down
• Where the Sepoy Rebellion occurred
• "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" locale
• Asian cricketing nation
• Pakistan's neighbour
• Country needing Gandhi right away
• I help Northern Ireland rise
• Country returning financial help to Northern Ireland
• Country bordered by Bhutan and Pakistan and Bangladesh
• At home with telephone cut off in the country
• Country that came into being on 15 August 1947
• A large country - or George W Bush's cat?
• Sub-continent
• Commonwealth country, independent in 1947
• At home when help is turning up here in Asia
• Country home - help turned up?
• At home, financial assistance is raised for an Asian country
• Country home raised help
• Home help returns from Asian country
• Country home, one in withdrawn ad
• Country home, one acquired by American lawyer
• Country to help new one suffering setback
• Country home rejected financial assistance perhaps
• Country home needs help sent over
• Home help raised in Asian country
• Home help returned from Asian country
• Elected, raised support for republic
• Popular face, not having left country
• Country with an Asian identity
• Country favoured aid redistribution
• Home of the world's second-largest labor force
• Thar Desert country
• Prime Minister Modi's nation
• Its anthem is "Jana Gana Mana"
• Cricket team Juliet follows on radio
• The world's second most populous country
• Where Kipling was born
• Agra's home
• Sri Lanka's nearest neighbor
• Setting for some Salman Rushdie books
• 1 billion-plus country
• Setting for "Siddhartha"
• Distributing aid in Asian country
• Mumbai location
• Mumbai's home
• Country that has its own paper
• Russia's real objective in 7/21?
• Where yoga originated
• Land at the end of a passage?
• Where to find Delhi sandwiches
• Code word for the letter I
• Ink type that's also a country
• Where E. M. Forster's Passage led?
• Powerhouse in cricket
• World's largest democracy
• Nation of over a billion people
• Birthplace of yoga
• One of the top-10 in GDP
• George W Bush's pet cat when he was president
• Bay of Bengal nation
• World power in cricket
• Its tech hub is Bangalore
• Bollywood's country
• Most populous democratic nation
• Home to Bollywood
• Lucknow's country
• Site of the Dalai Lama's exile
• & 20. Graphic artist's medium
• The "I" of I.P.A.
• Chess's country of origin
• Land in part of Cambodia
• Country with 28 states
• Country home to Hyderabad
• Country home to the Ganga
• First country to discover water on the moon
• Asian country that's the seventh-largest in the world
• One of the "Emerging 7" nations
• Yoga's birthplace
• Birthplace of novelist Rohinton Mistry
• Where chess is believed to have originated
• Country with the largest population of vegetarians
• Country with the highest percentage of vegetarians
• Where shampoo was invented
• Home to more than 350 million vegetarians
• ___ pale ale
• International cricket powerhouse
• Delhi's nation
• Setting of the 2022 film "RRR"
• I, in the NATO alphabet
• Country whose national anthem is "Jana Gana Mana"
• Home to the monument depicted in this puzzle
• Country with the most vegetarians
• Home to more than 1.4 billion people
• Gandhi's country
• Country whose name is part of the NATO phonetic alphabet
• 28-Down's country
• World's most populous country as of 2023