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
Mama Khel Banoochi Mama Khel Banoochi Mama Khel Banoochi is a town and union council in Bannu District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Mama Khel is a Union Council in Bannu.In Mama Khel there one Higher secondary school for boys and one for girls,and numbers of primary and Middle schools for boys and girls. The Most significant thing of Mama Khel is its literacy rate which is highest in all Bannu which is almost 90%. The famous pushto singer Nader Ashna belongs to Mama Khel, other known persons are Engr Shafqat Ullah Khan and Malk Muhammad Ghani (Late).Tahair Khan has elected as a newly District Councilor