Head appearing stoned in India, back in the day? (5,2,3,5)

'day?' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'head appearing stoned in india back in the' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'head' could be 'crown' (crowning is a kind of heading) and 'crown' is found within the answer.
'in' is within the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).