History

The village Joynagar-Mojilpur in the district of South 24 Parganas of West Bengal, 50 K.M. South of Kolkata is situated in a Sacred place where went 500 years ago the Adi Ganga ( The Ganges ) used to flow over this place to join with Bay of Bangal, Sree Chaityanwa Mahaprabhu with his followers on his way to ‘ Neelachal’, traveled these places over the Ganges. Séance those days this village is very rich in culture. In those days, this village was a centre of Sanskrit culture and was named as second ‘Nabadwip’ of Bengal. ---- in the nineteen century Shib Nath Sastry, the great social reformer, Pandit Kmesh Chandra Dutta, the pioneer of spreading female education in Bengal, Sir Nilratan Sarkar, the famous physician, Kalidas Dutta, the famous Archeologist, Bimal Krishna Motilal the Spaulding Professor of far eastern region in Oxford University, the Second Asian to adorn this post after Dr. Radha Krishnan and may other prominent personalities of this village dedicated themselves for the cause of Indian’s freedom and Renaissance Movement of Bengal.

With this great cultural heritage of the village of Joynagar- Mojilpur, we proudly recall another heritage of this village in respect sweetmeat Industry like ‘Moye” which has touched the mind of many people for long time past, hot only in different district of West Bengal bent also in other states of India in respect of test, sweet scent, flavors and quality of this famous sweetmeat of Joynagar. i.e. the ‘Moya of Joynagar’.

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