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]
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