Heartless custom associated with India or another country (5)
I believe the answer is:
haiti
'another country' is the definition.
'Haiti' can be an answer for 'country' (Haiti is a country). I am unsure of the 'another' bit.
'heartless custom associated with india' is the wordplay.
'heartless custom' becomes 'hait' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'associated with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'hait'+'i'='HAITI'
'or' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for haiti that I've seen before include "Western part of island discovered by Columbus in 1492" , "Republic sharing WI isle" , "West Indies country associated with voodoo" , "Caribbean country, capital Port-au-Prince" , "Country in W Indies, capital Port-au-Prince" .)