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Pathans or the Pathans of India are citizens or residents in India who are of ethnic Pashtun ancestry. "Pathan" is the local Hindavi term for an individual who belongs to the Pashtun ethnic group, or descends from it.
Patan (pronunciation ⓘ) is the administrative seat of Patan district in the Indian state of Gujarat and is an administered municipality. It was the capital of Gujarat 's Chavda and Chaulukya dynasties in medieval times and is also known as Anhilpur-Patan to distinguish it from Prabhas Patan .
[30] [31] They were historically also referred to as Afghans [d] until 1964 [37] [38] after the term's meaning had become a demonym for all citizens of Afghanistan regardless of their ethnic group. [37] [39] The Pashtuns speak the Pashto language, which belongs to the Eastern Iranian branch of the Iranian language family.
Patan block, an administrative block of Palamu district, Jharkhand state; Pattan, Jammu and Kashmir-patnam or patan, place name element in India, meaning "town"
Unika Bajracharya, selected in April 2014 as the Kumari of Patan, is the second most important living goddess. [1] [2] In Kathmandu Valley, this is a particularly prevalent practice. It is believed to be the incarnation of Taleju, a manifestation of the goddess Durga. [3]
It was due to Lalit's effort that the god Rato Machhindranath was settled in Lalitpur. Many believe that the name of the town is kept after his name Lalit and pur meaning township. In May, a chariot festival honoring the deity known as Bunga Dyah Jatra is held in Patan. It is the longest and one of the most important religious celebrations in ...
Vishnu Simha died around 1560 and his three sons ruled jointly over Patan. [17] [18] Two of his three sons died before 1580, and then onward Purandar Simha reigned as the sole ruler. [19] In some time between 1597 and 1603, Shivasimha Malla of Kantipur raided Patan and brought it under his control, thus re-incorporating Patan under the reign of ...
Patan district is one of the 34 districts of Gujarat state in western India.Its main city is Patan.This district is located in northern Gujarat and bounded by Vav-Tharad district in the north, Banaskantha district in the northeast, Mehsana district in the east and southeast, Surendranagar district in the south and Kutch District and the Kutch nu Nanu Ran (Little Rann of Kutch) in the west.