Hello Flap Slimy Outward,
Andy from the DWG here.  
Whenever you're thinking about making significant changes like this it's always a good idea to discuss with the relevant community.
In this case, asking about it at https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/in/136 would have been a good idea.
Beyond that, I'm really interested to know where you got the idea that "India prefers" from?  In reality, it's extremely complicated, and the names that people use are affected by political affiliation as well as language (you're from the US, so that idea may not be unfamiliar to you).
With India this has happened before - see https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/osm-deep-history/#/node/424314145 - last time it was a well meaning European who thought that the people in India who had decided what names to use for their country were "wrong".
Often a good question to ask in this situation is: "how come I, a mapper from place X, is thinking about making a change to place Y, when the people from place Y haven't made that change already?".
Best Regards,
Andy