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
Ama Khel Ama Khel Ama Khel is a village in Tank District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is one of the 16 union councils in Tank District. Ama Khel is located in Tank District. Nearby villages are Mullazai, Sherbati, Pai and Gul Imam. Ama Khel also has Government Degree College, which is established in 2011 and regular classes are started in 2013. Prominent people hailing from Amakhel area are Pir Sabir Shah who became MNA of Dera Ismail Khan after defeating ex-Chief Minister Sardar Inayat Ullah Gandapur in 1985 elections and Fateh Ullah Khan Kundi, a civil engineering graduate of