Talk:Patnaik
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There are also Patnaiks from Andhra Pradesh hailing from the border regions between Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. Traditionally they are the people with the same professions as the ones in Orissa. The word 'Patta' means a land ownership document and Pattanaik or Patnaik is derived from the fact that most people from this caste dealt with Revenue accounting.Those pattnaik's are also from Originated from orisssa. when those areas of Andhra are in Oriya kings control they put those pattnaik's there as the authorities.
I removed most of the text as unreferenced ( I looked and could not find references) please read WP:V#Burden_of_evidence before adding or replacing content. Jeepday (talk) 02:16, 27 May 2007 (UTC)