Pauspur

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=September 2018}} {{Infobox settlement  | name = Pauspur | native_name_lang =  | settlement_type = Village | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_flag = | flag_alt = | image_seal = | seal_alt = | image_shield = | shield_alt = | nickname = | motto = | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = | coordinates = | coor_pinpoint = | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[India]] | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = [[Assam]] | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = [[Kokrajhar district|Kokrajhar]] | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | established_title = | established_date = | founder = | seat_type = | seat = | government_footnotes = | leader_party = | leader_title = | leader_name = | unit_pref = Metric   | area_footnotes = | area_urban_footnotes =  | area_rural_footnotes =  | area_metro_footnotes =  | area_magnitude =  | area_note = | area_water_percent = | area_rank = | area_blank1_title = | area_blank2_title =  | area_total_km2 = | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | area_urban_km2 = | area_rural_km2 = | area_metro_km2 = | area_blank1_km2 = | area_blank2_km2 =  | area_total_ha = | area_land_ha = | area_water_ha = | area_urban_ha = | area_rural_ha = | area_metro_ha = | area_blank1_ha = | area_blank2_ha =  | dunam_link =  | area_total_dunam = | area_land_dunam = | area_water_dunam = | area_urban_dunam = | area_rural_dunam = | area_metro_dunam = | area_blank1_dunam = | area_blank2_dunam = | length_km = | width_km = | dimensions_footnotes = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = | population_total = | population_as_of = | population_density_km2 = auto | population_demonym = | population_note = | timezone1 =[[Indian Standard Time|IST]] | utc_offset1 =+05:30 | timezone1_DST = | utc_offset1_DST = | postal_code_type = | postal_code = | area_code_type = | area_code = | iso_code = | website = | footnotes = }} [[File:Bernhard Pauss NFB-37326 (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Bernhard Pauss]], for whom the village was named]] '''Pauspur''' is a [[village]] in the state of [[Assam]] in [[India]], located to the south of the Mornai Tea Estate within [[Kokrajhar district]]. It had its own Lutheran congregation and church, Pauspur Church. A small church was built 1919–1920 and replaced by a larger church in 1939. Pauspur Church was closed in 1951, as religious services were moved to a new church in Dingdinga.

==History==

It was built just outside Mornai Tea Estate<ref>{{cite book |year= 1945 |title=The 79th Annual Report of the Santal Mission of the Northern Churches |url=https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/16846211|location= |publisher= |page=63 |isbn=|quote=Pauspur congregation is situated at the outside of the Tea-garden}}</ref> at the colony's southern border<ref name=Santalen1921>{{cite journal |title=Bengali-arbeidet |journal=[[Santalen]] |date=15 March 1921 |volume=39 |issue=5 |page=73 |url=http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digitidsskrift_2022081980021_001}}</ref> in the late 19th century by missionaries affiliated with the [[Santal Mission of the Northern Churches]]. The village of Pauspur is mentioned as early as 1896.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bahr |first1=Halfdan |title=Fra Assamkolonien (Brev fra Halfdan Bahr; skrevet kort før hans Død) |journal=[[Santalen]] |date=20 September 1896 |volume=14 |issue=9 |page=139 |url=http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digitidsskrift_2022071185092_001 |quote=Folkene fra Pauspur, Hertelpur og Mornaithehaven d.v.s. de herværende Kristne, søker Kirken i Mornithehaven}}</ref> The village was named in honour of [[Bernhard Pauss]] (whose last name is also spelled Paus), the chairman of the [[Norwegian Santal Mission]], and thus consists of the Norwegian family name [[Paus family|Paus]] and the [[Sanskrit]] suffix [[Pur (Vedic)#Pur and Pura|pur]], meaning "city" or "settlement." The village's name was usually spelled Pauspur, although its namesake Bernhard Pauss used a different spelling of his last name.

A map including the village's location is included in the book ''Santalmisjonens historie''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Nyhagen |first=Johan |author-link= |date=1968 |title=Santalmisjonens historie |url=http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2008060900028?page=367 |volume=2 |publisher= |page=369 |isbn=}}</ref> Pauspur is located around 40 kilometres to the south of [[Bhutan]] and around 25 kilometres to the north of [[Bangladesh]].

===Pauspur Church===

The village had its own Bengali-language Protestant [[Church (building)|church]]. The Bengali-speaking Christians of the colony lived mainly in Pauspur or Bijoepur.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Vore bengali talende kristne |journal=[[Santalen]] |date=15 April 1920 |volume=38 |issue=7 |page=106 |url=http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digitidsskrift_2022070885034_001}}</ref> In 1919 services were held in a buffalo [[stable]] in Pauspur.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Grahampur menighet |journal=[[Santalen]] |date=20 December 1919 |volume=37 |issue=24 |page=373 |url=http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digitidsskrift_2022070885032_001}}</ref> The 1919–1920 annual report of the Santal Mission of the Northern Churches noted that "as we have some Christians of different races in Pauspur we got a small church built for worship in the Bengali language. But we placed it close to the southern boundary of the Colony in order that it might become the starting point for work outside. Though we have not seen much fruit in that direction yet, I am glad to tell that the [[Rajbanshi people|Rajbongsis]] call it 'our church.'"<ref>{{ cite book | date = 1921 | title =The Fifty-Third Annual Report of the Santal Mission of the Northern Churches for the year 1919–1920 |location=Dumka| url = http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digitidsskrift_2023060580110_002 | pages =39–40 }}</ref> ''Santalen'' also mentioned the small church in Pauspur in 1921.<ref name=Santalen1921/> A new, larger church in Pauspur was completed in 1939.<ref>{{cite book |last= Hodne| first=Olav | authorlink= Olav Hodne |year= 1992 |title=Santalmisjonens historie: med særlig henblikk på utviklingen i India og Norge 1867–1967 |url=|location=Oslo |publisher=Den norske santalmisjon |volume= 3 |page=281 |isbn=|quote=I 1939 kunne misjonens formann innvie en ny kirke for kamarene i Pauspur [...] atskillige er blitt døpt i årenes løp i Dingdinga, Mornai og Pauspur.}}</ref> However, in 1951, Pauspur church was closed and religious services were moved to a newly completed church in [[Dingdinga]].<ref>{{cite book |year=1953 |title=The 86th Annual Report of the Santal Mission of the Northern Churches |url=http://images.library.yale.edu/divinitycontent/dayrep/Santal%20Mission%20of%20the%20Northern%20Churches%201952%20v86.pdf |location= |publisher= |page=77 |isbn= |access-date=3 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220033822/http://images.library.yale.edu/divinitycontent/dayrep/Santal%20Mission%20of%20the%20Northern%20Churches%201952%20v86.pdf |archive-date=20 December 2016 |url-status=dead |quote=The need for a church for Bengali-speaking people has been felt in Mornai since the church of Pauspur was shifted to Dingdinga in 1951}}</ref>

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[[Category:Villages in Kokrajhar district]]