Knock Indian city briefly in burlesque (7)
I believe the answer is:
lampoon
'burlesque' is the definition.
(I know that burlesque can be written as lampoon)
'knock indian city briefly' is the wordplay.
'knock' becomes 'lam' (lam can mean to hit or knock).
'indian city' becomes 'poona' (I've seen this before).
'briefly' means to remove the last letter.
'poona' with its last letter taken off is 'poon'.
'lam'+'poon'='LAMPOON'
'in' is the link.
(Other definitions for lampoon that I've seen before include "Personal satire" , "Satirise, ridicule" , "Written ridicule of polo man" , "Parody" , "Mock" .)