In India, study religious image (4)
I believe the answer is:
icon
'religious image' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'in india study' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'india' could be 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.) and 'i' is found in the answer.
'study' could be 'con' (con can informally mean to study) and 'con' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
(Other definitions for icon that I've seen before include "Something on computer screen" , "Religious image or computer symbol" , "Representative figure as on computer screen" , "item on the menu" , "A religious painting or representative figure" .)