Ramgarh block

Horanda Alias Ramgarh
Block
Horanda Alias Ramgarh Location in jharkhand, India
Coordinates: 23°53′N83°57′E / 23.88°N 83.95°E / 23.88; 83.95
Country	India
State	Jharkhand
District	Palamu
Block	Ramgarh Block
Government
•  MLA	Alok Chaurasiya Bharatiya Janata Party
Population  (2001)
• Total	86,139
Languages
• Official	Magahi, Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	822132
Website	palamu.nic.in

Ramgarh block is one of the administrative blocks of Palamu district, Jharkhand, India. It is also known as Horanda.

Horanda is a part of Daltonganj (Vidhan Sabha 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

• Daltonganj 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.