For the past five years, an international team from the USA, Australia, India, and Germany has been researching the subjects of this cross-cultural project, uncovering and reconstructing the tragic story of Cassim and Abdallah. The team has scoured archives and contemporary newspapers, reconstructed lost stories, and identified and visited remote and forgotten locations. Australian newspaper advertisements stated that Cassim and Abdallah had performed at numerous Royal Courts in India. Perhaps true, perhaps not, but we know that Cassim was a skilled practitioner of Malabar’s ancient martial art, which has its origins among warriors and is related to dance, yoga, and Ayurvedic medicine. Under the British, warriors trained in this art were considered among the most fearsome fighters against the Raj, and the Honourable East India Company tried, in vain, to ban training in this art of the warrior.