^ We call them "water buffaloes", because we are most familiar with the African cousin from Wild Kingdom and Animal Planet. But in India, they are simply "buffaloes". Not a great deal of wading going on in hot Hyderabad these days.
This is a picture I took of buffaloes walking down the street outside of space-age HITEC City. This was on the way to work and it happens often. Several times a day Akbar swerves around a guy with fifty goats, a pack of unaccompanied buffaloes, or cows standing in the middle of the road chewing cud. It authentically doesn't cause any response from the local population - this is simply how roads are used. The old and the new, the cars and the goats ~ co-mingled.
Fascinating place this India.
The buffaloes provide the milk that is used to make dahi (yogurt), drinking milk, cheese, etc. New news to us a few months back that we were ingesting their milk.
