I'm trying to play the acoustic guitar in the classical Indian style which involves a lot of string bending to go up 1-4 semitones. My question is whether there's a difference in string tension that makes it easier to do on sitar/veena so that I don't injure my left hand mimicking that on the guitar. I've never played those instruments but they have more depressed frets and seem to be more easy to pull the string on.
My tuning is B-E-B-E-B-E and I'm using steel-stringed guitars.