It's unfortuante that india is not ready for bitcoin yet, mainly because people is too uninformed to even know what it is let alone how to properly use it to store and move their wealth. A lot of people is going to lose their net worth because of government stupidity and gold will be confiscated if they try to go the gold route.
People from India love gold so if the government tried some confiscatory measures I’m sure there is going to be strong resistance against it, that is why I think India is going to adopt bitcoin, if we explain them that bitcoin is like an electronic form of gold.
Bitcoin is already being adopted by many Indians. And after demonetization in India, many peoples are getting into Bitcoins. The acceptance rate of Bitcoins will be going further gradually. Not only they are uninformed, many people live in fear. Gold can be bought electronically also, but they by physical gold out of fear for feeling more secure.
main reason for the seemingly higher price in India is because of the smaller supply vs the demand. if they had a proper way of purchasing bitcoin rather than using localbitcoins their bitcoin price wouldn't have been this high. there is only one Indian exchange and that already needs a bank to deposit and Indians have trouble with their banks. so they seek alternative ways like localbitcoins and pay extra amount.