Agrizhan
The Agrizhan (Template:Langx Agryzhanskie tatary) are primarily Muslim descendants from Indian Merchants who operated in Astrakhan and Tatar women. The children of such Indo-Tatar couples were called Agryzhan Tatars.[1] The community's decline began in the early 19th century, when the Russian Empire began to tightly regulate the trade of foreign merchants.[2] In 1857, they numbered 107. Since then they have assimilated into the Astrakhan Tatar population.[3]
At least some of the earliest Indian Merchants were Hindus. They were closely connected with the Bukharan merchants in Astrakhan, and part of the trade network connecting Astrakhan with Bukhara and Iran before and after the Russian conquest of the city. Over time, they all became Muslims. They retained special privileges, as well as the so-called Gilani Tatars, the Iranian trading community in the city, and with the cities Bukharan Tatars, until 1836.[4]
Some of the Agrizhan Tatars went together with other Muslims of different Ethnicity from Russia to Ottoman empire between 1860-1914 [5][6]
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- Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook. (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1984) p. 6