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Every account on this site carries a list headed Where to check this. That heading is deliberate. It is not a record of what was read in order to write the page. It is a list of places a reader can go to check the page against something better.

How the pages were written, plainly: they are compiled from the standard published histories and reference works. Nobody from this project has visited the places, read the archives or held the manuscripts. That is a real limitation and it is stated at the foot of every page rather than hidden.

The arithmetic across all 1867 lines on the site: 730 resolve to something in the library below and are linked directly; 1137 name a real, findable document that this project has not consulted, and are printed under a heading that says exactly that.

A third category used to exist: lines that named nothing checkable at all, phrases like the standard accounts or contemporary reporting. There were 309 of them. They have been deleted. A gesture at a source is not a source, and printing one under any heading is a claim the page cannot support.

No URL in the library below was guessed. Each one was fetched and confirmed to be the thing it is described as. Where a document could not be verified, it is not linked.

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Named on pages, not yet in the library

These are cited by name on one or more pages and have no link yet. Adding a findable edition of any of them to the library links every page that cites it.

  1. No specific document is named for this page. (30 pages)
  2. kukasikhs.com (2 pages)
  3. Wikipedia entry on Baba Gurdit Singh. (2 pages)
  4. Circulation figures for the Punjabi dailies. (2 pages)
  5. Kandi area development programme records. (2 pages)
  6. Reporting and academic work on the Zameen Prapti Sangharsh Committee. (2 pages)
  7. Published case studies of the Moga milk district. (2 pages)
  8. Indian Army recruitment statistics, 1914 to 1918. (2 pages)
  9. Param Vir Chakra citations. (2 pages)
  10. Indian Army official history of the 1965 war. (2 pages)
  11. Param Vir Chakra citation for Abdul Hamid. (2 pages)
  12. Meerut Conspiracy Case records. (2 pages)
  13. Kirti journal. (2 pages)
  14. Urban conservation literature on the walled city. (2 pages)
  15. Punjab Mandi Board arrival data. (2 pages)
  16. Court records in the Faridkot estate litigation. (2 pages)
  17. Faridkot Teeka, published editions. (2 pages)
  18. National Human Rights Commission proceedings in the Punjab cremations case. (2 pages)
  19. Ministry of Road Transport accident statistics by state. (2 pages)
  20. Punjab State Power Corporation Limited annual reports. (2 pages)
  21. Punjab budget documents. (2 pages)
  22. Records of the 1905 Kangra earthquake. (2 pages)
  23. Standard histories of Lahore. (2 pages)
  24. Colonial-era and modern Punjabi proverb collections. (2 pages)
  25. Standard biographies including Khushwant Singh, Ranjit Singh: Maharajah of the Punjab. (2 pages)
  26. Nobel Prize biographical materials. (2 pages)
  27. Parliamentary records. (2 pages)
  28. Punjabi publishing trade accounts. (2 pages)
  29. Punjabi University transliteration project records. (2 pages)
  30. Farm indebtedness surveys naming wedding expenditure. (2 pages)
  31. Standard commentaries. (2 pages)
  32. Anna Bigelow, Sharing the Sacred. (2 pages)
  33. Punjab Waqf Board records. (2 pages)
  34. Punjab animal husbandry data. (2 pages)
  35. Red Fort trial records, 1945. (2 pages)
  36. Kila Raipur rural games records. (2 pages)
  37. Published work on Ramgarhia migration to East Africa and Britain. (2 pages)
  38. Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography. (2 pages)
  39. Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya institutional history. (2 pages)
  40. 1974 Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines. (2 pages)
  41. National Family Health Survey data for Punjab. (2 pages)
  42. Report of the Hunter Committee, 1920. (2 pages)
  43. Congress Punjab Inquiry Committee report, 1920. (2 pages)
  44. Ethnographic observation reported in the literature. (2 pages)
  45. The gaps recorded across this site's own pages. (2 pages)
  46. Uganda Railway construction records. (2 pages)
  47. British Indian Army recruiting handbooks by class. (2 pages)
  48. Khalsa Darbar records. (2 pages)
  49. Contemporary British despatches. (2 pages)
  50. Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence. (2 pages)
  51. OpenStreetMap, node wdQ25990852.
  52. Hindustan Times, Jalandhar edition, 7 May 2017, via PressReader.
  53. The Better India, on Karamjit Singh Kalia and the Badduwal memorial.
  54. malerkotla.nic.in, district history.
  55. Anna Bigelow, Sharing the Sacred (OUP).
  56. Caravan, on the muzara movement and Punjab land rights.
  57. Scroll.in, on the Zameen Prapti Sangharsh Committee.
  58. People's Archive of Rural India.
  59. ThePrint, on the mosque at Hedon Bet.
  60. Wikipedia entry on Jamia Mosque, Nathowal, and its cited sources.

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