AHC: Keep the Indo-Greek Kingdoms Alive

How can we keep those pesky Yavanas/Javanas/Yonas/Greeks alive and well in northwest India/Central Asia? I know that we might want to divert the nomadic incursions, but how long will that keep them there?

Are there any other ways to keep them there, and how might they evolve should they have maintained their independent existence?
 
The problem is that they existed in the direct path of nomadic empires into Persia and India. If they had been established (or even if they conquered and then moved into) kingdoms in Central India and perhaps the Gujarat, then maybe they could have survived. In any case, they Indianized rather quickly (although Greek lettering on coins lasted into the Guptas, although it lost actual words in the middle of the Saka-ruled Western Satraps of the Kushanshas.
 
How can we keep those pesky Yavanas/Javanas/Yonas/Greeks alive and well in northwest India/Central Asia? I know that we might want to divert the nomadic incursions, but how long will that keep them there?

Are there any other ways to keep them there, and how might they evolve should they have maintained their independent existence?

They were already Indianising pretty quickly- I suspect they'd end up like the White Huns did, becoming, as Rajputs, just another Indian ethnic group.
 
My 2 cents:


Short term:

A Seleucid-wank with a POD no later than the early reign of Antiochus III could theoretically buy them a couple of centuries, especially if a trickle of Graeco-Macedonian imigration continues as part of the program of military-settler colonies the Seleucids were so fond of.


Medium term:
Ethnically they could in theory survive as a coherent group (as the ruling elite) and maybe a city here and there for a while longer. However, once their state collapses, they're in big trouble.

Long term:
Maybe survive as a small, isolated ethnic group, simmilarly to the Ossetians in Georgia or others.
 
The Huns who came as conquerors uprooting kingdoms and cultures,settled down to become Rajputs,the defenders of Indian culture and polity.If the Greek had arrived in large numbers and established longer lasting kingdoms they too would have Indianised like the Huns and enriched the Indian civilization.
 
The Huns who came as conquerors uprooting kingdoms and cultures,settled down to become Rajputs,the defenders of Indian culture and polity.If the Greek had arrived in large numbers and established longer lasting kingdoms they too would have Indianised like the Huns and enriched the Indian civilization.

eh, is that Rajputs-Huns link proved? seems a bit like nationalist taking of a part of history...
 
If you got a (very temporary) Greek-wank, and had some level of Greek control and settlement of Kerala and or the Carnatic, then I think Indo Greek kingdoms could survive there, if only because they aren't directly in the path of every. single. invading. horde.

Now, how to achieve this conquest is the question. You'd need either a penetration by land (harder, considering the Maurya power at the time of Alexander) or perhaps a Seleucid/Alexandrian invasion by fleet. When the other kingdoms fall, the Indo-Greeks could flee there. Of course, they'd further Indianize, but it would be a Greco-Dravidian culture rather than the Greco-Bactrian-Indian culture of OTL.
 
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