The Punjabi Village Elder is the Elder of the Indian village Punjabi. He met Indiana Jones, Willie Scott and Short Round in 1935 and asked them to bring back the Sankara Stones and solve the mystery of the children, who had been kidnapped from the Punjabi village. Indy, Willie Scott and Short Round did so, bringing back the Sankhara stones as well as the children, who had been kidnapped by Mola Ram and his Thuggee cult.