Very interesting. I was not aware at all that this was an Indianism. One that I like quite a bit is the word prepone.

My uncle, who worked for oil companies all his life, always had the opinion that the Indians use english better than the English. :-)

'prepone' is an example of why I sometimes agree. Most indian guys I know also up the baudrate of english so much that they get twice the information flow compared to british english. With the disadvantage that both sides of the conversation need to speak indian english or you'll get protocol errors :-D