印 - Press Your SEAL Down

Readings & Meanings:

イン

しるし

sign, mark

Common Usage:

印度

印鑑

印刷機

Examples:

彼女は本格的なカレーの作り方を習おうとして印度へ行ってしまった。

日本ではサインの代わりに印鑑を使う。

いつも使っていた印刷機が壊れた。

Translations:

Since she decided to learn how to make true, authentic curry, she up and went to India.

In Japan, instead of signing our names, we use seals.

Whenever I use it, the printing press breaks.

Radical:

A hand on the left is forcing someone to kneel on the right. The idea is in pressing down, which is what you do with your name seal.

How this kanji came to be associated with India is likely just sound-matching.

References:

http://www.kanjinetworks.com/knetwork/KAN.html#KAN43
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/kanji/kanji/u.htm