Silambam Asia where silambam greatly influenced many fighting systems. The Indian community of the Malay Peninsula is known to have practiced silambam as far back as the period of Melaka's founding in the 15th century, and likely much earlier. The soldiers of Kings Puli Thevar, Dheeran Chinnamalai had Silambam army named "thadii pattalam", Veerapandiya Kattabomman and Maruthu Pandiyar (1760–1799) relied mainly on their Silambam prowess in their warfare against the British Army. Indian martial arts suffered a decline after the British colonists banned Silambam along with various other systems. They also introduced modern western military training which favoured fire-arms over traditional
Musti-yuddha Musti-yuddha Musti-Yuddha (Sanskrit and ; ) is the traditional form of boxing originating from the Indian subcontinent. The term literally means "fist combat", from the Sanskrit words "muśti" (fist) and "yuddha" (fight, battle, conflict). While this would originally have been used as a general term for any boxing art, today it usually refers to muki boxing from Varanasi, the only surviving unarmed style. In the Punjab there still exists an armed form of boxing called "loh-musti" in which the fighters wear an iron ring on one hand, although it is no longer used for sparring. Aspiring boxers undergo years of