Bhawnathpur Garhwa

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Bhawnathpur
Block
Bhawnathpur is located in Jharkhand
Bhawnathpur
Bhawnathpur
Location in Jharkhand, India
Bhawnathpur is located in India
Bhawnathpur
Bhawnathpur
Bhawnathpur (India)
Coordinates: 24°23′N 83°34′E / 24.38°N 83.57°E / 24.38; 83.57Coordinates: 24°23′N 83°34′E / 24.38°N 83.57°E / 24.38; 83.57
Country India
StateJharkhand
DistrictGarhwa
BlockBhawnathpur
Languages
 • OfficialBhojpuri, Hindi
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
822112
Vehicle registrationJH14

Bhawnathpur is one of the administrative blocks of Garhwa district, Jharkhand state, India.

About Bhawnathpur Garhwa Jharkhand[edit | edit source]

Bhawnathpur a Taluka/Block, close to Ranka, is located 40 km from Garhwa. It's well covered by Vodafone, Airtel, Uninor, Reliance, BSNL, Aircel, Idea, Airtel 3G, like cellular networks. SAIL (RMD) has limestone and dolomite mines in Bhawanathpur.

Languages[edit | edit source]

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]

Facilities[edit | edit source]

A small market called Bhawnathpur bazar is situated in middle of the block.

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  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.