Bassi Pathana

Bassi Pathana City of Pathanas
Historic city
Bassi Pathana Skyline
Nickname:  Bassi
Bassi Pathana Location in Punjab, India
Coordinates: 30°42′35″N 76°24′30″E / 30.7097°N 76.4084°E / 30.7097; 76.4084
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Fatehgarh Sahib
Established	1540
Population  (2001)
• Total	18,547
Languages
• Official	Punjabi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	140412
Telephone code	01763
Vehicle registration	PB-52
Sex ratio	800:1000 ♂/♀

Bassi Pathana is a historical city and a municipal council in Fatehgarh Sahib district in the state of Punjab, India. It is well known for being Asia's first market for sewing machines. Bassi Pathana is the founder of the First Sewing Machine and its key parts in Asia in the 1920s. India's first sewing machine was manufactured by Pt. Ramjidass of Bassi Pathanan in 1925,^[1].