Works around India yielding ... (6)
I believe the answer is:
pliant
'yielding' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
I cannot understand how the remainder of the clue works.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pliant that I've seen before include "Accommodating" , "Not firm" , "Flexible - yielding" , "docile" , "Bending easily" .)