A price was put on Kattabomman's head prompting many Polygars to an open rebellion.
This document provided that Azim-ud-Daula
ceded all his lands to British rule, including the territory of the Polygars.
The British and the Arcot Nawab used him to suppress the Polygars(Palayakkarar) in the south of Tamil Nadu.
The English perceived the Polygars as a rival power and treated them as their inveterate enemies,
allowing their hostility full expression in their accounts.
Given their numerical strength, extensive resources,
local influence and independent attitude, the Polygars came to constitute a powerful force in the political
system of south India.
The Polygars from Tirunelveli, Madurai regions and Sivaganga and Ramnad, were unwilling to pay taxes(kappam or
Kist) to Mohammed Ali, a weak Nawab, nor ever recognized the British in the guise of tax collector.
In 1755 the Nawab and
British having valid reasons to quell these rebellious Polygars dispatched a huge army to the south under Col. Heron
and Arcot Nawabs brother Mahfuz Khan, accompanied by Yusuf Khan as bodyguard.