|
Admin
history |
Prior to the year 1813 the Scottish population in Indian were wholly dependant on the Anglican Establishment maintained by the East India Company, for purposes for religious worship. During that year however the East Indian Company sought a renewal of their charter from the British government and in doing so provided an opportunity to secure new concessions favourable to the progress of Christianity in the East. These changes included the allowance given to missionary's to work within India, ""for the religious and moral improvement of the people"", and as a result in 1824 the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland sent its first missionary to India . Subsequently, a number of years thereafter, the Kirk Session of Eastern Assam was established with two chaplains provided by the Church of Scotland to reside within Easter Assam, one at Digboit and the other at Jorhat. The final meeting of the Kirk Session of Eastern Assam took place on the 1st March 1973. |