Importance of understanding the precipitation patterns is well understood for risk assessment, understanding the effects of climate change besides having economic implications such as effects on agriculture and allied industries. Here we present a study in which we studied the precipitation patterns over India from 1901 to 2015 and its variation along with geography and the trends observed in the past century. The time series and spatial distributions were analyzed and plotted. The results show the development of drought conditions and extreme event conditions across some regions in India after 1945 and show that southern India’s coastal regions have a bigger share in the occurrence of extreme events. These results can be helpful in policy formulations and inferring land use pattern and climate change effect on weather