Background: COVID–19 (corona virus disease–2019) is a highly infectious respiratory disease originated from China. It has rapidly infecting people throughout the whole world including India. People‘s commitment to preventive guidelines is highly affected by their knowledge, attitude and practice towards COVID–19. Present survey was conducted online during COVID–19 pandemic lockdown to assess the Knowledge, attitude and practice of Indians about COVID–19. Material and methods: It was a web–based cross–sectional survey conducted among general population of India by administering a self–structured questionnaire consisting of 23 KAP questions. Data was collected by a non –probability snow ball sampling technique from 24th April 2020 to 1st May 2020. A total 1352 responses were received. The data was analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS–20. Results: This survey found that out of 1352 respondents 1199 (88.7%) were between age group of 15–30years, 804 (59.5%) were females, 796 (58.9%) graduates, 1063 (78.6%) unmarried, and 1202 (88.9%) were Hindus. For COVID–19 information, survey completers were relaying on various online and offline information modalities like television (72.7%), social media (72.6%), Newspaper (42.6%), Aarogya Setu Mobile Application (35.1%) etc. 1206(89.2%) respondents exhibited good knowledge, whereas 1219 (90.2%) respondents were having optimistic high attitude about COVID–19 pandemic. About 90% (1213) of participants reported good practices towards COVID–19 infection prevention. A weak positive correlation among knowledge, attitude and practices about COVID–19 among Indian population with a high statistically significant correlation at p <0.01 level was found. Conclusion: Literate Indian population have good knowledge, high attitude and good practices towards COVID–19 at the time of its outbreak. However Due to limited sample representativeness, one must be prudent in generalization of survey findings to non–literate Indian population.