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{{Places of Interest|title=Faridpur|name=Faridpur |link=xxxxx}}
'''Faridpur''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V12_058.gif Faridpur District] in the Dacca Division of Bengal during the British period. [[See [[Bengal Districts]].
There was a Baptist mission located here, which seems to have been established c 1882 by the South Australian Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, which became the Australian Baptist Foreign Mission Society. There were related missions at [[Comilla]] and [[Pabna|Pubna]]
*[http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47063020 "Furreedpore Mission"] ''South Australian Register'' (Adelaide, SA) : Saturday 25 May 1889 Page 7 trove.nla.gov.au
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=O-OTBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT337 "Furreedpore and Comilla"] Page from Chapter 18 "The First Australasian Baptist Missionary: Ellen Arnold and the Bengalis: 1882-1931" by Rosalind M Gooden. ''Interfaces Baptists and Others: International Baptist Studies'' by David Bebbington. The subject was the first and longest serving missionary of the Australian Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, which commenced in South Australia as the South Australian BMS, which also had a mission at Pubna.
*[https://archive.org/details/youngmanscountry0000smit/page/n7 ''A Young Man's Country : letters of a subdivisional officer of the Indian Civil Service 1936-1937''] by W. H. Saumarez Smith 1977. Archive.org Lending Library. The author was in the Indian Civil Service 1934-1947. The letters were written when he was at Madaripur, in the district of Faridpur, in East Bengal (now Bangladesh).
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