Do you know mughal themselves didn't like to be referred to as mughal. Explain Why?
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The Mughals did capture a part of Tamil Nadu (the northern Carnatic region), establishing a regional seat at Arcot. Zulfiqar Khan's victory over the Marathas at Gingee and Daud Khan's siege of Fort St. George (Chennai) were both accomplished during Aurangzeb's lifetime. The Madurai Nayak kingdom had become a feudatory of the Mughal empire a decade before Aurangzeb's death: the Nawab of Arcot collected tribute from Madurai as the Mughal representative in the South.
By the end of Aurangzeb's Deccan campaign, the Mughal treasury was empty. There was no money left for further expansionist wars, especially since the empire was facing multiple rebellions, most notably from the Marathas. The empire could not wage a war for complete conquest of the Madurai kingdom: carrying out occasional raids to extract tribute from Madurai was a better idea. As for Kerala (Cochin and Travancore), it was buffered by the Mysore kingdom. The Mysore kingdom itself managed to survive by paying tribute to the Mughals and the Marathas; later, it gained complete sovereignty, and under Tipu Sultan, attacked both Cochin and Travancore.
After Aurangzeb's death, many Mughal noblemen stopped taking orders from the emperor, ultimately carving out independent kingdoms. The Nizam of Hyderabad and the Nawab of Carnatic (based at Arcot) were no exception - with them gone, the Mughal emperor lost his control over the South Indian territories. These newly-independent Muslim dynasties captured parts of present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala (see this map). By 1736, Chanda Sahib had annexed the Madurai Nayak territories, after deposing Queen Minakshi. The Nawabs of Arcot ruled a substantial part of Tamil Nadu, until they had to surrender their territory to the East India Company after a massive debt crunch. Mysore's ruler Tipu Sultan, who defeated Cochin, was the grandson of Arcot's commander Fatah Muhammad. He also tried to capture the rest of Kerala (Travancore), but the British came to the aid of Travancore, ultimately defeating him.
TLDR: Mughal noblemen and their descendants did capture Tamil Nadu, but by the time this victory was complete, they were no longer part of the Mughal empire. They also captured northern Kerala - by the time they invaded southern Kerala, the British had arrived on the scene.
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The Mughals
Although they were known as Mughals because of their Mongolian descent, they did not like being referred to as Mughals because the name of the Mongols has been marred by massacres and bloodshed. ... But the Mughals were very proud of their Timurid ancestry because Timur had captured Delhi in 1398.