Census 2011
District population : 13,43,734
Growth : 13.61%
Sex Ratio : 935
Literacy : 72.3
Brief About Patan District
About The District
Patan is a city in Gujarat state of western India. It is the
administrative seat of the District of the same name.
History
Patan is an ancient fortified town, founded
in 746 by Vanraj Chavda, the most prominent king of the Chavda
Kingdom. He named the city Anhilpur Patan after his close friend
and Prime Minister Anhil. The city was also known as Anhilwara
in the Middle Ages. Patan enjoyed a privileged status of capital
of Gujarat, for about 600 years from 746 to 1411. The major Rajput
clans of Chavdas (746-942), Solankis (942-1244) and Vaghelas (1244-1304)
ruled the Hindu Kingdom of Gujarat from Patan. Historian Tertius
Chandler estimates that Anhilwara was the tenth-largest city in
the world in the year 1000, with a population of approximately
100,000. Muhammad of Ghor attacked the city in the 1180's, but
was rebuffed by the Solankis; Muhammed's general (and later Sultan
of Delhi) Qutb-ud-din Aybak sacked the city between 1200 and 1210,
and it was destroyed by the sultans in 1298. After the collapse
of the Delhi Sultanate at the end of the 14th century Gujarat
became an independent Sultanate, and Sultan Ahmed Shah moved the
capital to Patan. The modern town of Patan later sprung up near
the ruins of Anhilwara, and contains many Jain temples. Patan
was part of the Maratha state of Baroda from the mid-eighteenth
century until India's independence in 1947, when Baroda became
part of Bombay state, which in 1960 was separated into Gujarat
and Maharashtra.
Current Presently,
Patan is home to the Hemchandracharya North Gujarat
University. Patan is a prominent medical centre in the north Gujarat
with almost 200 practicing medical professionals. Patan serves
as a central market place for local farmers. Patan is also a tourist
destination with a rich religious and cultural history and landmarks.
Patan has numerous Hindu and Jain temples as well as Muslim mosques.
References Chandler, Tertius. 1987. Four Thousand
Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census. St. David's University
Press.