Zardnaar
Deity
I would place the Indians in the 2nd tier. Long way from Menzo Jopedamus I- hows Baenre doing?
India can go Feudal in the middle ages quite easily. Well, any religious tribe can, but so what? Well, if you have a sizable enough empire, the more corrupt towns can then whip out extra jumbos. If you have Sun Tzu's, that sounds really dangerous. If you don't, then you'll have 4/4 baby jumbos which could serve as the first attackers against a city to weaken it before your huge 5/5 jumbos or your enormous 6/6 jumbos steamroll the city. You'll get a little extra production from the commercial trait, making whipping jumbos out all the more feasible. If that works out as I think it might, that's some jumbo synergy between religious, commercial, and jumbos. If you get war weariness you don't like from Feudalism, revolt to Monarchy for a bit.
Egypt was one of the few civs hat can abuse feudalism. I tried that tactic out once and the crazy slingshot effect I got was enormous. I had a huge army and was making money comparable to a republic. Massive army of war chariots, free unit support and pop rushing in captured towns to get below size 6 while I let the core grow up to size 12 cities.
One of the easiest civ wins I've ever had.