did you try doing a search with the words 'tipping'????here are some results:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/india...tes-india.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/india...ing-india.html

I would say 5-10% range is appropriate.

Just double checks it has not already been added in some of the higher end places.

Just a small piece of advice, give him something at the end of each day.
You may find he's sleeping in the car and a small token each day may just give him enough for a nice meal each night.
(150-200RPS)

Thank you for your replies.

I'm in the middle of a one month stay in India. Normally, about a third of the year in Italy, and two-thirds in the US. The tipping rules there are clear to me. In Italy there is essentially no tipping. When you ask for the check, there is not a line to write in a tip. It just isn't expected. In the USA you tip 15-20%, and there is a line for tips on every restaurant bill. I have no idea what the norm is in India. I'm staying in one hotel for the whole month. I eat almost all of my meals here, and use their various services. I've gone out a few times to eat, and until last night, haven't seen a restaurant bill with a line for tipping. What is the norm here?

10% should be good

i normally stick to inr 200 if the bill in under inr 5k & inr 500 if its over inr 5k....

What if you don't get a bill until the end? I'm staying at a hotel for a month. At the end of the first week the front desk asked me to pay about $1300 USD, which was for the room and for what I had eaten in the restaurant, bar, mini-bar, etc. I just paid that. I did not include a tip. I don't know how giving a tip to the front desk would get it distributed to waiters, the bar tender, etc. At the end of my next three weeks I'll get the rest of the bill, probably about $4,000. In the hotel I have just charging it to the room. There is no line item for tips on the bills that they bring. I haven't been leaving money each time. Is this bad?
Should I leave money each time? At the end, do I seek each person out who served me, and give them a tip? What if they are not working that day? Do I give a 5% tip to the front desk and tell them to distribute it to all the waitstaff, and assume that it will actually be done? What's different about my question is that I'm staying in one place, for one month, and am incurring virtually no outside expenses, except for the occasional yuk-yuk or taxi, and I can deal with that. I just don't know what to do at the end of a one month hotel stay.

i just leave a tip at the end of every meal, room service, etc....i don't wait till the end of my stay....