As you may or may not know, there's been independent Hellenistic kingdoms in Northern India and Afghanistan such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greek_Kingdom and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom.
Would it be possible for nations like these to survive all the way up to the modern era?
Would it be possible for nations like these to survive all the way up to the modern era?