Jaynagar Majilpur

Jaynagar Majilpur, prevalently known as Jaynagar, is a city and a region of South 24 Parganas area in the Indian State of West Bengal. It is arranged in the southern rural areas of Kolkata. As a urban setup in the region of the Kolkata, the city is inside the zone of Greater Kolkata. It is a piece of the region secured by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority KMDA. Truth be told, Jaynagar and Majilpur are two separate towns. Since the arrangement of the district, these two towns are referred to together as Jaynagar Majilpur.

Jaynagar is well known for the ice cream parlor of Jaynagarer Moa. The town of Majilpur conveys the memory of an extremely noteworthy occurrence ever of Bengal. At the point when Raja Pratapaditya Roy, the last Independent Hindu lord of Bengal at Jessore was vanquished by the Mughal powers, the State Diwan's Grand Vizier family and the State Priest's family were compelled to escape to dodge abuse and transformation.

They settled down in the Majilpur town to shape the domain of the Duttas, and the Brahmin minister, Sree Krishna Udgata, who came over, settled down in what is today the Bhattacharya Para. All the Bhattacharyas in the town are his scions, with the current thirteenth era being settled out of the town. The town was likewise called "Half-Calcutta" inferable from the advancement it had seen before Independence, with stalwarts like Sivanath Sastri developing.