44 Facts About Patna

Patna, historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India.

The Buddhist, Hindu and Jain pilgrimage centres of Vaishali, Rajgir, Nalanda, Bodh Gaya and Pawapuri are nearby and Patna City is a sacred city for Sikhs as the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh was born here.

The modern city of Patna is mainly on the southern bank of the river Ganges.

Ancient Patna, known as Pataliputra, was the capital of the Magadh Empire through Haryanka, Nanda, Mauryan, Shunga, Gupta and Pala dynasties.

Patna served as the seat of power, and political and cultural centre of the Indian subcontinent during the Maurya and Gupta empires.

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Many believe Patna derived its name from Patli, a tree variety that was found in abundance in the historic city.

Patna chose the site on the bank of the Ganges and fortified the area.

Patna prophesied a great future for this place even as he predicted its ruin due to flood, fire and feud.

Patna wrote that the city was on the confluence of the rivers Ganga and Arennovoas and was 14 kilometres long and 2.

Patna found that the nobles and householders of the city had constructed several hospitals in which the poor of all countries, the destitute, the crippled and the diseased can get treatment.

Bakhtiar Khilji captured Bihar in the 12th century and destroyed everything, and Patna lost its prestige as the political and cultural centre of India.

Patna built a fort and founded a town on the banks of the Ganges.

Patna was annexed by the company in 1793 to its territory when Nizamat was abolished and the British East India Company took control of the province of Bengal-Bihar.

In 1912, when the Bengal Presidency was partitioned, Patna became the capital of the British province of Bihar and Orissa, although in 1936 Orissa became a separate entity with its own capital.

People from Patna were greatly involved in the Indian independence movement.

Patna remained the capital of Bihar after India gained independence in 1947, even as Bihar was partitioned again in 2000 when Jharkhand became a separate state of the Indian union.

Patna is unique in having four large rivers in its vicinity.

The topography of Patna city is saucer shaped as per Patna City Development Plan prepared in 2006.

Patna comes under India's seismic zone-IV, indicating its vulnerability to major earthquakes, but earthquakes have not been common in recent history.

Patna has long been a major agricultural hub and centre of trade.

Patna is the 21st fastest growing city in the world and the fifth fastest-growing city in India, and is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 3.

Civic administration of Patna is run by several government agencies and has overlapping structural divisions.

The revenue district of Patna come under the jurisdiction of a District Collector .

Patna has lower courts; the Small Causes Court for civil matters, and the Sessions Court for criminal cases.

The Patna Police, commanded by Senior Superintendent of Police, is overseen by the Bihar Government's Home Department.

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Patna has been selected as one of the hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under Government of India's flagship Smart Cities Mission.

Patna comes under the Patna Telecom District of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, India's state-owned telecom and internet services provider.

Patna was the second Indian city, after Bangalore, which offered free WiFi connectivity to its citizens in February 2014.

Patna was one of the first places in India to use horse-drawn trams for public transport.

Patna Airport known as Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport is classified as a restricted international airport.

Patna Junction is directly connected to most of the major cities in India.

Patna is well connected with neighbouring Gaya, Jehanabad, Bihar Sharif, Rajgir, Islampur through daily passenger and express train services.

Patna is well connected with roads to various major cities of Bihar like Hajipur, Munger, Jamalpur, Bhagalpur, Gaya, and Purnia.

Patna Metro is a planned rapid transit system for the city.

Patna has a vibrant Bengali culture too with many Bengali stalwarts including the first Chief Minister of post-independence West Bengal, Bidhan Chandra Ray, being born here.

Patna has many buildings adorned with Indo-Islamic and Indo-Saracenic architectural motifs.

Patna School of Painting or Patna Qalaam, some times called Company style, is an offshoot of the well-known Mughal Miniature school of painting, which flourished in Bihar during the early 18th to the mid-20th centuries.

The Patna painters differed from the Mughal painters, whose subjects included only royalty and court scenes, in that they included as subjects bazaar scenes, scenes of Indian daily life, local dignitaries, festivals and ceremonies, and nature scenes.

Patna is home to many tourist attractions and it saw about 2.

Takht Sri Patna Sahib is one of the Five Takhts of Sikhism and consecrates the birthplace of the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Gobind Singh.

Schools in Patna are either government-run schools or private schools.

Patna University was established in 1917 and is the seventh oldest modern university in the Indian Sub-continent.

Patna has a variety of other universities, as well as many primary and secondary schools.

Patna has several AM and FM radio stations, including many state-owned channels.