The Indians inherited their ways of doing business from the Brits.
In my opinion a common misapprehension!
The Indians (and Arabs) had a highly refined and man power intensive bureaucracy in place long before the Anglo Saxons/Vikings/Celts/Normans etc. etc. eventually stopped killing each other and ended up with a recognisable but divided small Country.
All the "Brits" really did was manage (rather than govern) through private enterprise (The East India Company) a plethora of warring independent multi religious States and their Rulers with varying degrees of success for a couple of hundred years assisted by a large well equipped PRIVATE Army consisting mainly of well trained and (for the most part) well looked after locals trained by expatriate military employees of the Company.
The Company made (stole to some modern p.c. thinking) untold £££'s Billions in todays terms which was the reason they were there - Not to introduce bureaucracy.
The Company was clever enough not to get too involved in areas like the Caste System which survives almost unchanged to this day, further strengthened by ex Wing Commander/Group Captain types who leave the Service and rely on their ex Rank rather than any recogniseable ability to bully their way through the Indian Aviation Industry for the rest of their lives.