Brahmin, to bring Kulin Brahmin families for matrimony. Gradually, many Brahmin families like Durga Charan Banerjee, Ramtanu Chatterjee, Ramnidhi Chatterjee, Nandaram Mukherjee etc. migrated and settled at Ootarpara through matrimonial relation with descendants of Ratneswar Roychoudhury. Many of these families afterwards took leading role in intellectual and spiritual development of Uttarpara. It is not known how and when 'Ootarpara' became more sober sounding Uttarpara. Jaykrisna Mukherjee, one of the renowned Zamindars of that time belonged to this historic town. He and his family members (Mukhopadhayy Bangso) are said to be one the founder of modern Uttarpara. Jaykrisna Mukherjee a big lover of education and it was he who founded the famous Jaykrisna library (India's largest reference library). He paid a great attention towards female education and founded a school for the women which is still active.
Joykrishna Mukherjee was the first person to sign a mass petition for enactment of a law for widow marriage (Bidhoba Bibaha). A part of the Joykrishna library was opened for the famous poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta during his last few years. Uttarpara is a land of culture.Every year in the month of January a classical concert is organised by the Sangeet Chakra where many famous classical maestros perform
