Emperor backed morning scripture lessons in India … (8)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

TSAR after A.M. + R.I. I have a small niggle with a city in India being defined by ‘in India’, which effectively fails to indicate the right part of speech, like using ‘green’ to define ‘grass’. ‘… in Indian city’ (using ‘in’ as a link word) would be fine. Chifonie commits the same sin at 24d.