Because they were similitude duh... Pindaris were a roving coalescence of North Indian and North-Western groups including Rputs, first hired by Rputana Rajas as mercenaries who later degenerated into Pindaris...
Also, Pandari's presence so deep in the south, elicits no surprise, even someone who has done a rudimentary study of the Pindaris knows that their raids covered the entire length and breadth of the sub-continent.
This argument therefore does not hold water.
OK, so I did some more research on the subject of Pindari raids in the Madras Presidency as has been described by Oakes and Robertson in their 1817 report (discovered by me BTW).
What I have further discovered not only buttresses my argument but also soundly refutes OP's counter-argument.
I have managed to track down another British official's report detailing two Pindari raids. The first of which commenced on the October of 1815 after Pindaris' Dussehra celebrations, a party of 8,000 Pindaris' crossed the 'Narmada' River from North India (i.e., Uttar Bharat).
They caused considerable depredations in the Maratha Riyasat of Nagpur & in the Nizam of Hyderabad's territories, till they reached the Northern bank of the River 'Krishna'.
However, the Pindaris' found themselves unable to raid across the Krishna into the Madras Presidency due to the river being impassable for Pindaris' horses. Therefore, they had to retire to their residence in North India across the Narmada.
Elated by their success in this raid and determined to raid across the Krishna into the Madras Presidency, the Pindaris' planned a second raid. It is this raid that became the subject of Oakes and Robertson's 1817 report.
This raid commenced on the February of 1816, a second party of about 10,000 Pindaris' once again crossed the Narmada from North India and took the same route that the first party of Pindaris' had taken. This time the Pindaris' were successful in crossing the Krishna.
This second party of Pindaris' entered the Madras Presidency on the 10th day of March, 1816. After causing considerable depredations in the Madras Presidency for 12 days, the Pindaris' recrossed the Krishna on the 22nd day of March, 1816.
Most of the Pindaris' recrossed the Narmada by the 17th day of May, 1816 and returned to their residence in North India laden with their ill-gotten gains.
Thus, North Indian communities such as Rajputs, did form a significant component of the Pindaris as noted by Oakes and Robertson in their 1817 report.
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