Patan block

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; and Bhojpuri, a tongue in the Bihari language group with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in both the Devanagari and Kaithi scripts.