www.nookdevs.com
softrooting very easy, allows you full functionality of Nook using sideloaded books.
I don't have any books from BandN but can do all the coverflow and indexing tricks.
Just buy it and use it, it will work just fine in India.
It works perfectly well in Thailand.
I already have over 400 sideloaded books on my additional SDcard and I only got my Nook yesterday morning.
This is My Library (Nookdevs version)
Trook showing Calibre Library