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
Ghari Usmani Khel Ghari Usmani Khel Usmani Khel is an administrative unit, known as Union council, of Malakand District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan Inhabitants are mainly bajezi, khattak,baba khel swati and mians( bachagan). A single Basic health unit is located near the road. Government schools (separate male and female) are present. Mians are most educated living in a separate area "Fazle Abad". They are the descendants of Faqir Shah commonly known by the name of Baba Jee. All of the family members have surname Fazle. Beyond the area of Fazle Abad is a mountain having some relics of old civilization