India did not exist before 1947.
In 1991, atleast 194 languages are spoken with more than 100000 population. The estimation differ in different surveys.
Government of India recognized 22 languages in its schedule.
They include, Assamese, Bangla, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, and Urdu.
Each Indian State has its own official languages.
We do have an elite Indian community “Parsis”. Parsis are commonly seen speaking either Gujarati or English. But their native language is Avestan- which is old Persian language.
In that context, Yes. Indians used to speak Persian in the past.
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