The Editor and The Publisher have retracted this article due to self-plagiarism. The same authors published in the Journal Vayu Mandal (Bulletin of the Indian Meteorological Society) Abhishek Lodh and Ramesh Raghava (2012) Soil moisture - precipitation feedback on Indian climatic zones in Indian summer monsoon regime, 38:3-4, pp 46-55, unknown to both the Editor and the reviewers of Theor. Appl. Climatol., incorporating text and figures of a similar nature and no citation to that earlier work.