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The geographer
Peter Simon Pallas
also mentioned in 1782, of North Indian Merchants of
Vaishya
caste mostly from
Multan
who lived in
Astrakhan
.
[1]
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]