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The **Agrizhan** ([Russian](/source/Russian_language): Агрыжанские татары *Agryzhanskie tatary*) are primarily [Muslim](/source/Muslim) descendants of [Tatar](/source/Tatarstan) women and Indian merchants who operated in [Astrakhan](/source/Astrakhan). The children of these Indo-Tatar unions were known as Agrizhan Tatars.[1]

## History

The community's decline began in the early 19th century, when the Russian Empire imposed strict regulations on foreign trade.[2] By 1857, their population had dwindled to 107, and they eventually assimilated into the broader [Astrakhan Tatar](/source/Tatars) population.[3]

Some of the earliest Indian merchants were [Hindus](/source/Hindus), closely linked to [Bukharan](/source/Bukharan) merchants in Astrakhan. They were part of a vibrant trade network that connected Astrakhan with [Bukhara](/source/Bukhara) and [Iran](/source/Iran), both before and after the Russian conquest of the city. Over time, these merchants converted to Islam. Like the Gilani Tatars and the Bukharan Tatars, they retained special privileges until 1836[4]

Between 1860 and 1914, some Agrizhan Tatars migrated to the [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire) alongside other Muslim groups from Russia.[5][6]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Astrakhan's India Connection"](https://openthemagazine.com/columns/astrakhans-india-connection/). 16 March 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Early traces of Indian life in Russia"](https://www.rbth.com/blogs/2014/09/12/early_traces_of_indian_life_in_russia_38261). 12 September 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Dale, Stephen Frederic (1994), ["The Indian diaspora in the Volga basin"](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/indian-merchants-and-eurasian-trade-16001750/indian-diaspora-in-the-volga-basin/C8F5444323A5442BBB645CE233EDBB4C), *Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600–1750*, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 101–127, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1017/cbo9780511523977.007](https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fcbo9780511523977.007), [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-521-45460-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-45460-5){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_work_parameter_with_ISBN))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Allen J. Frank, *Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia: Sufism, Education and the Paradox of Muslim Prestige* (Brill), p. 50-52

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Meyer, James H. (2007). ["Immigration, Return, and the Politics of Citizenship: Russian Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1914"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4129110). *International Journal of Middle East Studies*. **39** (1): 15–32. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1017/S0020743807212516](https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0020743807212516). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [4129110](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4129110).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Hamed-Trojansky, Vladimir (2018). [*Imperial Refuge: Resettlement of Muslims from Russia in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1914*](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/AAI28114952) (Thesis). Stanford University.

## Further reading

- Wixman, Ronald. *The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook*. (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1984) p. 6

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