Punjab is known outside Punjab through about six things: Partition, the Green Revolution, the army, bhangra, the diaspora, and a decade of violence in the 1980s.
Everything on this site is a fact about Punjab that is not one of those six and that is not written down anywhere a person can easily find it.
The project is desk research. Nobody working on it has stood in most of these places. Every page says so, and every page carries what is not known about it alongside what is.
That last part is the method. A page that says clearly what it does not know can be corrected. A page that fills the gaps with plausible prose cannot, because nobody can see where to start.
The people who know these places are the people who live in them, and almost none of what they know has been written down by anybody. This is a place to put it.
The name is the Punjabi word for the gathering where such things were said out loud, before anyone thought to write them down.
Because the stories exist and the record does not, and because everybody involved assumes somebody else is keeping it.
Because a place with a name and a story attached to it is harder to demolish, sell, or forget than a place with neither.
Because the people who could write this down are alive now and will not be in twenty years, and nothing in the state's institutions is arranged to ask them anything.