Originally Posted by SJOGuy

Thank you, oliver2002 and GoraDesi. Those are good suggestions.

I've been planning this trip in my mind for years. In fact, I can look back here on FT and see questions I've asked about India. It's finally hit me that that ideal Nov.-Feb. window for travel to India doesn't work for me for a long trip, and I'm not going to travel all that way for just a few days. So, hot, dry summer or hot, wet monsoon it must be if I ever want to get there. I'm zeroing in on Rajasthan because I've always wanted to go there and it seems that a drier part of the country might be more navigable during the monsoon.