Unless you are keeping vassals in India and use the centers to have high share and increase the goods from the vassals and the value in the nodes, I still think that strategy worse than keeping capital and full state cores in India. But it is a matter of preferences.
Despite all this, the question TS asked was how to deal with GC as Mughals. As some of you said he can spare some GC TCing India that has more Dev than Persia. Or he can simply build the GC buildings as I advised, since Mughals will be very rich.
What Ive done in my last run in the region (my 1st 1.30 run), a WC with Timur/Mughals being Confucian and Emperor of China, was keeping capital in India and TCing all the rest. The Arakan region is in Bengal node but not in India, so I made a 3rd tier TC investment for the node. The same with the Indian ocean islands that are in Coromandel node but not in India.
Your trade company provinces will boost your non trade company provinces production, as everyone else this is sub optimal because the only TC regions you wouldnt TC is gold mines which aren't effected by that production boost, as the penalty from non accepted culture and religion would offset the bonus. However mughals have the diwan mechanic, so auto accept all cultures once you have the provinces, so you can TC the areas with CoT, but leave the rest of land as states, as well as being Muslim so have privleiges to accept the Hindu provinces they'll encounter, either through no impact on religious unity, or + tolerance of heathens
If he has dharma, he shouldn't have any issues with gov capacity, as they get multiple unique gov reforms which increase gov capacity, as well as just increasing it manually using gov reform progress.
Yeh I'm experimenting in my current Eng GB game of what happens if you state Bermuda, as its in an area with provinces that are in the carribean colonial region but isn't itself in the colonial region, do those stay as your states or go to your carribean colonial nation
