Patan block

For other uses, see Patan (disambiguation).

Patan
Block
Patan Location in jharkhand, India
Coordinates: 24°12′N84°10′E / 24.20°N 84.17°E / 24.20; 84.17
Country	India
State	Jharkhand
District	Palamu
Block	Patan
Government
• Zila Parishad Member	Jai shankar Kumar Singh -Sangram Singh
Elevation	216 m (709 ft)
Population  (2001)
• Total	146,139
Languages
• Official	Magahi, Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	822123
Website	palamu.nic.in/patan.html

Patan is one of the administrative blocks/Tehsil/ Taluka of Palamu district, Jharkhand state, India. According to the census of 2001 the block has 25,186 households with a population of 146,139. The block has 186 villages.

Patan is a part of Chhatarpur (Jharkhand Assembly constituency).

Languages

Languages spoken here include Asuri, an Austroasiatic language spoken by approximately 17 000 in India, largely in the southern part of Palamu; ^[1] and Bhojpuri, a tongue in the Bihari language group with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in both the Devanagari and Kaithi scripts. ^[2]

See also

• Chhatarpur Assembly
• Palamu Loksabha constituency
• Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
• Jharkhand
• Palamu

References

1. M. Paul Lewis, ed. (2009). "Asuri: A language of India". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
2. M. Paul Lewis, ed. (2009). "Bhojpuri: A language of India". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 30 September 2011.

External links

• Blocks of Palamu district
• http://palamu.nic.in/patan.html