Stylish and unusual tea chest seen around India (9)
I believe the answer is:
aesthetic
'stylish' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'unusual tea chest seen around india' is the wordplay.
'unusual' is an anagram indicator.
'seen around' is an insertion indicator.
'india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'tea'+'chest'='teachest'
'teachest' anagrammed gives 'aesthetc'.
'aesthetc' going around 'i' is 'AESTHETIC'.
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for aesthetic that I've seen before include "Concerned with the appreciation of beauty" , "Of pleasing appearance" .)