This site was assembled from published sources by desk research. There is no fieldwork in it.
Pages carrying the note that they are compiled from standard published histories have not been checked line by line against a primary document. That covers most of the site.
Where a claim rests on tradition rather than evidence, the page says so. Where two sources disagree, the page says so. Where the honest answer is that nobody knows, the page says that instead of filling the gap.
The dates, names and figures should be treated as the received account and not as verified fact. Several of them will be wrong.
This is stated plainly because a project about a documentation gap that misrepresents its own method would be worthless.
The value here is the structure and the questions, not the authority. Anyone with a primary source beats this site on any page it has.
The pages here are compiled from published sources: gazetteers, settlement reports, census tables, academic work, newspaper reporting and the standard reference books. Where a page rests on one of those it says so.
No page here reports fieldwork. Nobody from this project has stood in these villages and asked anybody anything, and that limit is stated on every page that needs it.
The right correction to a page here is one made by somebody who lives there. That is the whole design of the thing and it is the part that has not happened yet.