About this site

What this is

ninglekhu.com is the record of the Ninglekhu/ku (निङ्लेखु/कु) clan — a thar of the Limbu, or Yakthung, people of eastern Nepal. It is built on a research report compiled in August 2026, The Ninglekhu of Limbuwan: A source-critical history of a Yakthung clan Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C, and it is meant to grow beyond it: the report is a map of where to dig, and the digging is community work.

The Limbu-wide material here is context. The clan is the subject.

The standard

Six rules govern everything published here, and they are short on purpose:

1. Every factual claim carries a source and an evidence grade, A to E, and the key is published on How we know.
2. Repetition never promotes a claim. Forty sites saying the same thing without a document is still grade E.
3. Where sources disagree, both positions are printed with attribution.
4. The community’s account and the archive’s account are different sentences doing different jobs. Neither is a demotion of the other.
5. The Kirat peoples are not conflated: Sakela is Rai, samet and pacha are Rai terms, and Mundhum takes a different form in each people.
6. Anything current is date-stamped — “as of February 2025”, never “currently”.

Two further commitments follow. Nothing is asserted about Ninglekhu/ku descent, ancestry, migration or etymology beyond what a source supports — and where the answer is unknown, the page says what was tried. And living people are named only where a published source names them, always with a standing route to have the name removed.

Who decides

Community digital projects fail far more often from unclear stewardship than from lack of content, so the roles are written down here rather than left to habit Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C. They are roles, not people: whoever holds a role at a given time is accountable for it.

• Editors write and revise pages, and are responsible for the grade on every claim they publish.
• The council — the stewardship body that also reviews genealogy submissions — approves new sections, approves the publication of contributed material, and decides anything the editorial standard does not settle.
• The archivist holds consent records, decides the access tier of a recording or document, and is the only role that can publish restricted material.
• The technical steward holds the domain, the hosting and the backups, and is required to keep a second person able to do the same.

A correction can be requested by anyone and is approved by any editor; a removal is honoured by any editor without requiring a reason, and logged. Disagreements about a contested claim go to the council, and the outcome is published as a dated entry on the corrections page rather than as a silent edit.

Licence, and an invitation

The original text and figures here are published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0; quoted material remains under its own terms. Other clans are explicitly invited to copy this site — the structure, the evidence grades, the oral-history protocol and the editorial standard — with attribution. The full terms are on the licence page Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C.

Write to us at [email protected] or through the contact page. Corrections, additions, objections and family papers are all welcome, and all are answered.