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My wife is Indian, I travel to India typically once a year.
Long list of factors.
Most of the Indian population is in rural areas, 100% there is less testing going on there.
Because most life is rural, people don't go to high density grocery stores with oceans of plastic packaging around.
Lets face it, India is filthy. Even big cities are pretty dirty. But the upshot of that is that Indias are used to living with disease all around. They take their shoes off outside their homes. They wash their hands constantly.
Base on what I have said above, one has to wonder about increased herd immunity of the Indian population.
Lastly, Indians are very family oriented. Its not uncommon for people to hang out only with their family, or their cousins. Less external socialization means fewer vectors to the disease to spread.
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