Padwa block
Padwa | |
|---|---|
Block | |
Padwa Location in Jharkhand, India | |
| Coordinates: 24°10′25″N 84°03′37″E / 24.173599°N 84.060195°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Jharkhand |
| District | Palamu |
| Block | Padwa |
| Government | |
| • MLA | Radha Krishna Kishore Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Population (2001) | |
• Total | 46,957 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Magahi, Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 822123 |
Padwa or Pandwa is one of the administrative community development block of Palamu district, Jharkhand state, India. The Pandwa block has 8,985 households with aggregate population of 46,957. The block has 8 panchayats and about 34 villages.
Pandwa is a part of Chhatarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency).
Languages
Languages spoken there 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
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.