In India are there such orders

Masonic orders operate extensively in India, governed by both national sovereign bodies and historical constitutional jurisdictions.

In the Craft, the Grand Lodge of India acts as the sovereign governing authority, as the Grand Lodge of India states, while Royal Arch Masonry is administered by the Supreme Grand Chapter of India, and the Mark and Royal Ark Mariner degrees fall under the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of India. The Grand Master of the Craft automatically serves as First Grand Principal of the Supreme Grand Chapter of India, as the Grand Lodge of India notes. Administrative structures are further divided into four regions through Regional Grand Lodges, Regional Grand Chapters, and Regional Grand Mark Lodges, as the Regional Grand Lodge of Southern India outlines.

Freemasonry was first introduced to the Indian subcontinent in the eighteenth century through military and merchant lodges under British, Irish, and Scottish warrants 1. The first English lodge on the Coast of Coromandel was established at Madras in 1752, followed by lodges at Bombay in 1758 and Surat in 1798 1. The Grand Lodge of Scotland appointed Dr. James Burnes as Provincial Grand Master for all India in 1846 1. Burnes also founded an independent fraternal organization in three classes called the Brotherhood of the Olive Branch of the East 1.

District Grand Lodges under the United Grand Lodge of England, alongside district structures of the Grand Lodge of Scotland and provincial structures of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, have historically worked in India and remain distinct from the Grand Lodge of India.