In India we drive on the left side of the road. A practice inherited from Britain where too traffic is on the left side of the road.
Here is a video that I came across that explains why this is so. I hope that you enjoy seeing this and learning something new.
Left in New Zealand – probably because of our ties to the Motherland, United Kingdom/Britain AND as children taught to walk on the left hand side of a path – which has more foreigners have come to live here is disordered and now you can crash into a person following their homeland ways…
There have been instances of tourists getting into accidents but, not because of driving but while crossing roads here!