Carnatic

Carnatic, a region on the east or Coromandel coast of India, now included in the province of Madras, extending inland to the Eastern Ghats, and lengthwise from Cape Comorin to 16° N. It extended for about 600 miles along the east coast, and from 50 to 100 miles inland. The name Karnataka was originally applied by its Mohammedan conquerors to Mysore and the country above the Ghats. In course of time the same term has come to be applied exclusively to the country below the Ghats. The Carnatic is no longer an administrative division, but is memorable as the theatre of the struggle of last century between France and England for supremacy in India.