Updated: May 10, 2025: As I furthered my posts on various drongos and looked at my photos on iNaturalist, I found that the bird in my original post was identified as a bronzed drongo on iNaturalist and that I saw the black drongo in Varanasi while boating on the Ganges (photos taken with my iPhone). Further demonstrating that I have much to learn about drongos.
There are a number of different species of drongo and I never got comfortable with them. I would hear a guide mention them and not see them. I couldn't tell them apart. I've seen four species and I have no good pictures of them. These posts should help with my knowledge of them. I got some photos of black drongos with my iPhone while floating on the Ganges in a boat in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. While trying to enhance my photos on Light Room I got some weird colors coming out of them. 
It is all black with a long forked tail. There are seven subspecies and we saw Dicrurus macrocercus albirictus, found in the Himalayas from northern and eastern Pakistan east to western and northern Myanmar and southeastern Tibet, south to southeastern Pakistan and across central India. Below is an illustration of a black drongo from Birds of the World, but a different subspecies, macrocercus, the nominate subspecies which is in southern India and a little smaller.
In the last of your photos, it looks like it has a tweedy-patterned breast. Maybe you'll get a better picture someday.
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