India can be a tough nut. They’ve got a lot of different languages, and different scripts for the languages. Sure Hindi is the official language, but not everybody actually speaks it, or reads the official script for it. Had a bunch of Indian guys at my first company and I talked to them about that. They each spoke 3 or 4 Indian languages, plus English, and step 1 of meeting each other was figuring out which language they had in common. And for a couple it was English. Corporate America in DFW might have looked at that mountain and said “screw it, they all speak English”.
That’s actually the silver lining to Colonialization, they do have a common language in English.