The editor has a few minor comments. I ask the authors to carefully address them.

1. page 4, lines 27-28: I suggest the author elaborate their anthropogenic run since the paper's conclusion is that anthropogenic forcings are responsible for the decline in rainfall over India. What are the exact forcings? What is the source for the greenhouse gas changes, land cover change, aerosols? It would be good to include a reference for each forcing.

2. The conclusions are drawn from a single modeling study here and they are not in agreement with other modeling studies. It is a standard practice now to look at several models and look for robustness in the results. Against this background, I suggest the authors to discuss this issue (single model study) as a major limitation of this work in the abstract, introduction and conclusions.

3. Figure 10, top panel: The results seem to depend a lot on the soil moisture simulation. It is well known that SM has a long time scale and it could take centuries to bring it to equilibrium. The regional decline in this quantity over India is likely a model-simulated long term drift. Have the authors explored that there is very little drift in this quantity in their control simulation? I suggest the authors to investigate the drift in this quantity in their control and discuss the likelihood of that drift influencing their result.

4. In figure S3, units are missing for mean, std, trends and for the x and y axes.