Starts to vacate India and turn in headland amazons (7)
I believe the answer is:
viragos
'starts to vacate india and turn in headland amazons' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'starts to vacate india and turn in headland amazons' is the wordplay.
'starts to' says to take the initial letters.
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'turn' becomes 'go' (a person's move in a board game).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'headland amazons' becomes 'ras' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The initial letters of 'vacate india' is 'vi'.
'go' placed into 'ras' is 'ragos'.
'vi'+'ragos'='VIRAGOS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for viragos that I've seen is " Domineering women".)