A partial list, from the pages on this site, of things about Punjab that no institution holds a record of.
The names on village war memorials. The inscriptions on village gates. The stories attached to jatheras. The samadhs in the fields and their condition. The manuscripts in gurdwara almirahs. The unexpurgated giddha boliyan. The riddles and tales an old woman knows. Which villages the Komagata Maru passengers came from. Who the truck painters are. What happened to the bar pastoralists after the canals. The pre-1900 buildings in the small towns. The etymologies of twelve and a half thousand settlement names.
None of these requires a grant, a degree or an institution. Every one of them requires somebody to go and ask, and to write the answer down where it can be found again.
This site is a place to put the answers. It is not a substitute for going.
The instruction at the bottom of every page on this site is the same: nobody from this project has stood there, and a correction from someone who has takes precedence over everything above it.
What a village ate in 1900, what a household earned, who worked for whom and on what terms, what was sung at a particular well, what the fields were called.
None of it is in the record because the record was made for revenue and for policing, and neither of those needed it.
Some of it is still in living memory. Most of it will not be in ten years, and nobody has asked.