^yes, most of the Indian hosts are resellers of US based hosts. The real Indian hosts(with servers based in India) are crap. I have a personal experience, that most Indian datacenters are bunch of incompetent engineers, even if I ignore the cost factor.
With the Indian host that I dealt with(Cyquator, a part of Zee /Essar group), they gave some crap outdated versions of software. No cPanel, everything should be done by FTP. They give only 1 database, a petty amount of diskspace and transfer and a lot of frustrations.
Avoid hosting based in Indian datacenters at any cost, no matter how professional their website looks or how good clothes their employess wear. All are a piece of **** who are good for nothing compared to US based counterparts.
Go for a reseller of US based host, somebody like *www.whost.in