Patansavangi (Patansaongi,[1]Patansawagi) is a
panchayat village[2] in
Maharashtra State, India.[3][4] Administratively, Patansavangi is under the
Saoner Taluk of
Nagpur District in Maharashtra,[4] although earlier (1908) it had been part of the larger Ramtek taluka.[5] It lies on the left (east) bank of the
Kolar River, just upstream from its confluence with the Chandrabhaga Nadi.[6] Patansavangi is 13 km by road southeast of the town of
Saoner (Savner) and 25 km by road northwest of the town of
Nagpur.
There are three villages in the Patansawagi
gram panchayat: Patansavangi, Bidkawadas and Kawadas.[4]
Patansavangi is the site of a
Gondi fort dating from the 16th century.[7] In 1742 there was a massacre at the fort of
Gondi people who resisted
Raghoji I Bhonsle, with a death toll of up to 12,000.[8]
^Central Provinces District Gazetteers, Volume 7, Nagpur District, Volume A, Descriptive. Bombay: Gazetteer Department, Government of Maharashtra. 1999. p. 326. revision of 1908 edition
^Nagpur(topographic map, 1:250,000), series U502, sheet NF 44-09, United States Army Map Service, June 1959