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Climate change has historically been viewed in India through a diplomatic lens as an equity issue, an artefact of global North-South divisions. But, in recent years, there has been a growing 'domestication' of climate politics and policy, as climate-related considerations infiltrate domestic politics. But rather than an existential politics of climate change, Indian climate politics operates through a re-working of existing development policy landscapes: ensuring energy access while decarbonising; providing urban services in warming cities; and ensuring productive agriculture in the face of greater shocks. Climate change is also being worked into India's strategic engagement with global politics. Understanding these forms of domestication of climate change are increasingly necessary to understand the global battle to address climate change, but also to understand emergent India, but also to understand emergent India.