ninglekhu.com opens

This site is the record of the Ninglekhu/ku (निङ्लेखु/कु) clan — a thar of the Limbu, or Yakthung, people of eastern Nepal. It opens today with the whole of a research report behind it: sixty-two pages, roughly 550 attempted source retrievals, and an evidence grade on every substantive claim Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C.

It also opens with less than we would like. The Ninglekhu name is attested on two independently compiled thar lists and printed in a national newspaper, and beyond that the archives are close to silent: no thum, no khola, no village, no founding ancestor, no complete etymology. That thinness is itself a historical fact — the record was oral by design, the state wrote “Limbu” and “Subba” over the thar, and the abolition of kipat in 1968 (second amendment to the 1964 Land Act) severed the one paper trail that ran by lineage.

So the site is built the other way round from most heritage sites. What is not known is published as plainly as what is: there is a ledger of negative findings, a list of twenty-four open questions, and a correction log that will never be quietly edited.

What happens next is not research. It is twenty conversations with elders, a hundred photographs of papers in tin trunks, and one shared family-line register. If you carry this name, you already hold material this site does not. Tell us what you know.