 He also invited zamindars and other landowners to join him in his mission, promising them more land if they can liberate their country from the British.He then ordered his followers not to pay their taxes to the Company.Following this, Reza sent 1,200 men to attack the nearby Bondassye thana (now Badarpur, Assam) of the East India Company, administered by a havildar and his eight sepoys.