Most traffic in India is very speed limited, there is no snow or ice in most parts of India.
Many of the safety concerns are perhaps overblown given the very different driving scenario. A bigger problem would be your actual driving skills, unless you take the national highways regularly travelling long distances.
I once took a cab from DEL to Gurgaon. The driver drove up an offramp of the (then) NH-8, along the shoulder against the flow of incoming traffic, and then exited via an onramp. And then they were surprised that I didn't tip them despite this efficient shortcut.
(It may be apocryphal, but fun story/business lesson (think that's where I heard it) regardless. Edit if I find it.)
I was once a passenger in a car going fairly fast on a two lane autobahn. A Trabant [1] in front started trying to overtake a truck at the same time that a Porsche 911 doing probably 250km/h was coming up behind us. Nobody hit anything else but it came fairly close.