I'm not sure if it is a fair response to the question to describe the Indian reaction, given MLK's association with non-violence, self-professed admiration of Gandhi and the statue of Gandhi and other tributes in King center, Atlanta

I can hardly better the words of the man himself (PDF) describing his 1959 visit (along with his wife and friend, Dr Reddick) to India.

Some excerpts & summary: "The people showered upon us the most generous hospitality imaginable.… Almost every door was open" King and his wife were extremely popular and received hundreds of invitations while being able to meet leaders in and out of Government from Prime Minister Nehru to activist Vinobha Bhave to village councilmen. Their pictures were in the newspapers and he was often recognized in public."Indian publications perhaps gave a better continuity of our 381-day bus strike than did most of our papers in the United States" Meetings at which he spoke were packed and even the pilots in his plane trips were among those who sought his autographs. Gandhians accepted King openly and praised him for his efforts in Montgomery. .

I don't remember which version of the film (there are Yellow and Blue versions), but there's an interview with him and considerable discussion in the 1967 Swedish film I Am Curious.

I am not sure how much the documentary sections of the film exaggerate his influence, but it does imply that he was a major theoretical force behind an industrial self-sabotage program in 1960s Sweden. As in, instead of a national defence program, the nation would have an extensive system of non-compliance at an infrastructural level.