Under Review

Why we mark things Under Review

The records of this community come from worn manuscripts in old Marwari, from printed books that sometimes disagree with each other, and from memories carried down in families. A great deal of it is sound. Some of it is a best reading of handwriting that has faded, or a name spelled three different ways in three different sources.

Rather than choose quietly and present a guess as a fact, this site shows you which is which. Where two translations of the same page disagree, both readings are printed. Where a village name in a census might or might not be the village you know, the doubt is stated plainly. Nothing here is dressed up as certain when it is not.

What counts as proof

Anything that can be checked by someone other than the person who remembers it. A photograph of the page or the stone is enough to begin — you do not need to part with anything.

• Manuscripts and bahis — khyat pages, account books, letters, pattas and grant deeds.
• Land and revenue papers — jagir records, settlement papers, old rekh assessments, court or tehsil documents.
• Stone — memorial pillars, devali and sati stones, temple and step-well inscriptions. A clear photograph in raking light, or a paper rubbing, is often readable when the eye is not.
• Printed books — a page photograph with the title page, so the source can be cited properly.
• Family trees and old photographs — especially where names and a date are written on them.
• Testimony from elders — welcome, and recorded as oral tradition. It will be marked as such rather than as documentary proof, which is not a lesser thing: it is simply a different kind of evidence.

What happens to what you send

1. Your submission goes to the History Committee, not straight onto the website.
2. The material is compared against the sources already held — the printed histories, the thikana register, the khyat sheets and the census.
3. If it settles the point, the page is corrected or the Under Review mark is lifted, and your source is cited on the page itself.
4. If it conflicts with what is already recorded, both are shown and the disagreement is described. We do not delete an inconvenient source.
5. If the committee needs to see the original, someone will contact you on the number you give.

If you would rather not use the form, send it on WhatsApp instead — the contact details are on the Contact page. Corrections are as welcome as additions. If something on this site about your own family is wrong, we would genuinely rather know.

Send your evidence

You can attach up to ten files. Photographs taken on a phone are perfectly good.

If you would rather send it on WhatsApp, that reaches us just as well — message us there instead →

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Your Name *

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Last

Mobile / WhatsApp Number *

So the History Committee can contact you if they need to see the original.

Email (optional)

Which page or statement does this concern? *

For example: the village page name, or a line marked Under Review.

What are you telling us? *

• This is correct - here is proof
• This is wrong - here is the correct information
• I am adding something new

What does your evidence show? *

Please say what the document is, roughly how old it is, and where it is kept.

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Upload your proof

Drag & Drop Files, Choose Files to Upload You can upload up to 10 files.

Photographs of documents, manuscript pages, inscriptions, land records, old photographs or family trees. Up to 10 files.

Where is the original kept? (optional)

A family collection, a temple, an archive, a village record room.

Permission *

• I am willing for this material to be reviewed by the History Committee and, if approved, cited on this website.

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Open questions right now

These are the points the committee would most like settled. If you can answer any of them, you will have moved the record forward.