Pauspur

Pauspur (also spelled Pausspur) was a village in the current state of Assam in India, located at the outside of the Mornai Tea Estate within the modern Kokrajhar district. It had its own Lutheran congregation and church, Pauspur Church, which was closed in 1951.

Pauspur
Village
CountryIndia
StateAssam
DistrictKokrajhar
Time zoneUTC+05:30 (IST)
Bernhard Pauss, for whom the village was named

History

It was built just outside Mornai Tea Estate[1] in the late 19th century by missionaries affiliated with the Santal Mission of the Northern Churches and was named in honour of Bernhard Pauss (whose last name is also spelled Paus), the chairman of the Norwegian Santal Mission. The village received the name Pauspur or Pausspur well before the end of the 19th century and still carried the name in the 1950s; the name consists of the name of the Norwegian Paus family and the widely used Sanskrit suffix pur, meaning "city" or "settlement."

The village had its own Bengali-language Protestant church which was completed in 1939.[2] However, in 1951, its church was closed and services were moved to a newly completed church in Dingdinga.[3] This led to a decline of the village.

Pauspur is located around 40 kilometres to the south of Bhutan and around 25 kilometres to the north of Bangladesh.

References
  1. The 79th Annual Report of the Santal Mission of the Northern Churches. 1945. p. 63. Pauspur congregation is situated at the outside of the Tea-garden
  2. Hodne, Olav (1992). Santalmisjonens historie: med særlig henblikk på utviklingen i India og Norge 1867–1967. 3. Oslo: Den norske santalmisjon. p. 281.
  3. The 86th Annual Report of the Santal Mission of the Northern Churches (PDF). 1953. p. 77. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.

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