Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has sparked another international incident - this time in India where he stripped to his boxer shorts and hung offensive banners on trains.

London's Daily Mail reported that the Indian High Commission demanded an apology from the BBC over its Top Gear Christmas special because it was "replete with cheap jibes, tasteless humour and lacked cultural sensitivity".

It reported that diplomats allowed Clarkson and his colleagues to film in the country after BBC producers told them the programme would be a "light-hearted road trip".

Instead, he erected banners on trains exhorting the Indians to "eat English muffins" and saying "The United Kingdom promotes British IT for your company".

Though the banners appear innocuous, they formed vulgar words and obscene slogans when split across various carriages.

Clarkson and fellow presenters, Richard Hammond and James May, drove about in a Jaguar with a toilet fixed to its boot, about which Clarkson bragged: "This is perfect for India because everyone who comes here gets the trots."

Clarkson offended Mexicans last year after he said: "Mexico doesn't have an Olympic team ... because anyone who can run, jump or swim is already across the border."

He outraged striking civil servants in November by saying they should be shot in front of their families.

The Daily Mail reported that Prime Minister David Cameron featured at the start of the Top Gear special, waving to Clarkson and telling him to "stay away from India".