What does it mean to study English literature in India ? Do you learn any skill at all this course of study?How different would it be to study...

To study
Englishin India is as important as studying English Literature in any other country.  In my
opinion, the grand prize of English Literature can be summed up in one word:  Shakespeare. 
Shakespeare alone (even if you consider him to actually be Kyd or Marlowe) makes English
Literature worthwhile studying.  This is not because England is some kind of extraordinary
country.  No.  It is simply because the literature of Shakespeare (including both his plays AND
his sonnets) is so incredibly profound and so astonishingly universal that all cultures have
been able to identify with the many characters enmeshed within it.  In fact, even if you
consider "English Literature" to be ANY literature written in the English language, .
. . the word Shakespeare can STILL sum it up nicely.

Therefore, there isn't
one specific "skill" that someone learns by reading only English Literature.  (Unless
you want to point to something specifically English, such as the type of sonnet called the
Shakespearean Sonnet.)  It is less a set of "skills" as it is a set of amazing
authors:  Bede, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Austen, and Shaw just to scratch the
surface.  In fact, I would argue that one would be quite handicapped indeed if English
Literature were the ONLY kind of literature taught in high schools and universities. 

Consider the course of study for most high school students in the United States of
America:  9th grade, grammar/writing; 10th grade, American Literature; 11th grade, British
Literature (English Literature); and 12th grade, World Literature.  To be well-read, therefore,
an American student should have knowledge of Indian Literature as well!  And I would hope that
the high school equivalent in India would include a full year of Indian Literature and that
perhaps English and American Literature would be grouped into one, or perhaps even included in a
World Literature class.

I believe any of us would be quite narrow-minded if
we knew literature only from our own country; therefore, kudos to those who stress the
importance of World Literature to expand student knowledge!