Moga was made a district in 1995 out of Faridkot. Its tehsils are Moga, Bagha Purana, Nihal Singh Wala and Dharamkot.
It holds Dhudike, birthplace of Lala Lajpat Rai; Badduwal with its First World War memorial; Dina Kangar where the Zafarnama was written; and the Nestlé milk district, centred on the factory Nestlé opened at Moga in 1961.
Its agriculture is wheat and paddy with a substantial dairy economy layered on it, which is unusual for the Malwa and is a direct consequence of the milk plant.
The Moga agitation of 1972, which began over cinema ticket prices and ended in police firing, is remembered across Punjab as the start of a decade of student politics.
What is not recorded: the district's dairy economy at household level, and the names of the men from its villages who went to the First World War, of whom five have been recovered from Badduwal and none from anywhere else.
Moga was made a district in 1995 out of Faridkot. It is wheat and paddy country in the central Malwa with a large dairy and food processing presence.
It holds Dhudike, the village of Lala Lajpat Rai, and it is the district Jaswant Singh Kanwal wrote from.
Its emigration rate is among the higher ones in the Malwa, mostly recent and mostly to Canada, and its towns carry the same coaching and travel agency economy as the Doaba.