Agrzhan Tatars
The geographer Peter Simon Pallas also mentioned in 1782, of North Indian Merchants of Vaishya caste mostly from Multan who lived in Astrakhan.[1]
History
This Merchants descendants named Agrzhan Tatars, once Hindus, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism Believers, they became Muslims when intermarried with Tatars and Turkic womans.[2][3] This Indian Merchants lived from 1550-1900 in Central Asia, in Citys like Bukhara, Tashkent, Astrakhan and Baku, where there build a Temple there The Ateshgah-Temple was worshipped by Hindus, Sikhs and Parsi (Zorashtrians from India), also they build the Multani Caravanserai in Baku. They brought also Brahmin Priest from India.[4] In later times some moved to other Countrys too.[5] While the Majority of this Merchants was originally from Multan District, also many from Shikarpur District and other Places from North India.[6] The Name Agrzhan derived from the City Agra, because many of this Muslim groups of Indian Merchants who lived in Astrakhan was from Agra[7]
References
- ↑ Lajara, Ignasi-Xavier Adiego (January 2020). "Adiego (2020) Historical Sources of the Romani Language". Yaron Matras · Anton Tenser Editors the Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics.
- ↑ "Agrzhan in a sentence - agrzhan sentence".
- ↑ Frank, Allen J. (14 September 2012). Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia: Sufism, Education, and the Paradox of Islamic Prestige. ISBN 9789004234901.
- ↑ "Astrakhan's India Connection". 16 March 2020.
- ↑ "The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and Its Trade,… von Scott Cameron Levi | ISBN 978-90-04-12320-5 | Fachbuch online kaufen - Lehmanns.de".
- ↑ https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/295558992.pdf
- ↑ Wixman, Ronald (28 July 2017). Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook. ISBN 9781315475400.
