title: Jayantipur
text: # Jayantipur
  
  Jayantipur is a village in the Chandrakona II CD block in the Ghatal subdivision of the Paschim Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India.
  
  ## Geography
  
  ### Location
  
  Jayantipur is located at 22°43′51″N 87°32′24″E﻿ / ﻿22.7307°N 87.5401°E﻿ / 22.7307; 87.5401.
  
  ### Area overview
  
  Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, scholar, social reformer and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance, was born at Birsingha on 26 September 1820.
  
  Ghatal subdivision, shown in the map alongside, has alluvial soils. Around 85% of the total cultivated area is cropped more than once. It has a density of population of 1,099 per $km^2,$ but being a small subdivision only a little over a fifth of the people in the district reside in this subdivision. 14.33% of the population lives in urban areas and 86.67% lives in the rural areas.
  
  Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  According to the 2011 Census of India, Jayantipur had a total population of 613, of which 324 (53%) were males and 289 (47%) were females. There were 59 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literate persons in Jayantipur was 497 (89.71% of the population over 6 years).
  
  ## Culture
  
  David J. McCutchion mentions the pancha-ratna temple as having octagonal corner towers with square centre tower.
  
  ## Jayantipur picture gallery
  
  * Pancha-ratna Shyamachandrajiu temple
  * Terracotta decorations in Shyamachandrajiu temple
  * Terracotta decorations in Shyamachandrajiu temple
  * Terracotta decorations in Shyamachandrajiu temple
  * Char-chala Radha Rasiknagarjiu temple
  