Patan is one of the administrative blocks/Tehsil/ Taluka of

Palamu district Palamu district is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand state, India. It was formed in 1892. The administrative headquarter of the district is Medininagar (formerly DaltonGanj), situated on the Koel River. History The Palamu district ha ...

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. According to

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

(2001), the block has 25,186 households with aggregate population of 146,139. The block has 186 villages.

History

Patan a Taluka/Block, close to Medininager Palamu, is located 25 km from

Medininagar (Daltonganj) Medininagar, formerly Daltonganj, is a city municipal corporation in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It is the headquarters of Palamu division and Palamu district, as well as the subdivision and block of the same name. The city is situated on th ...

. Patan is a part of

Chhatarpur (Jharkhand Assembly constituency) Chhatarpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Members of Legislative Assembly See also * Palamu Loksabha constituency * Patan block *Vidhan Sabha *Jharkhand *Palamu *Jharkhand Legislative ...

. It is well connected by road via two road. Both Road connects to

NH-139 National Highway 139 (NH 139) is a National Highway in India within the states of Bihar and Jharkhand. NH-139 links Rajhara in Jharkhand (about north of Daltonganj) to Patna, the state capital of Bihar. This highway passes through Arwal, D ...

. Old Patan Road is through patan mod Via Palhe and Main road passes through Bairiya chowk via Jonr. Patan surrounded on every side by mountains is a small beautiful town. It's well covered by Vodafone, Airtel, Uninor, Reliance, BSNL, Aircel, Idea, Airtel 3G, like cellular networks. ATM also available here for SBI near Patan Bazar.

Languages

Languages spoken here include Asuri, an

Austroasiatic The Austroasiatic languages , , are a large language family A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ''ancestral language'' or ''parental language'', called the proto-language of that family. The te ...

language spoken by approximately 17 000 in India, largely in the southern part of Palamu; and

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri (;Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries
, Oxford U ...

, a tongue in the

Bihari language Bihari is a group of the Indo-Aryan languages. The Bihari languages are mainly spoken in the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh and also in Nepal.Brass, Paul R. (1974). ''Language, Religion and Politics in North Ind ...

group with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in both the

Devanagari Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental syste ...

and

Kaithi Kaithi (), also called Kayathi () or Kayasthi (), is a historical Brahmic script that was used widely in parts of Northern and Eastern India, primarily in the present-day states of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar. In particular, it was us ...

scripts.

References

External links

Blocks of Palamu district
* http://palamu.nic.in/patan.html {{Palamu district Community development blocks in Jharkhand Community development blocks in Palamu district