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The challenge is to make the Tocharian peoples survive linguistically and genetically. You can think of any POD like a stronger Kushan India with Tocharian language being included along with the then widely used Bactrian,Scythian,Sogdian,Prakrit,Sanskrit and Greek in the Indian Empires along with good flourishing Tocharian settlements in the Northern Kushan Empire and eventually spreading or a Tocharian Empire in the greener and more hospitable parts of Central Asia and Xinjiang and then expanding more in possible direction or a dominant Tocharian majority/minoritiy or equal size in China and parts of East Asia as a part of the Chinese civilization and many other scenarios. Let's see how you come up with this.
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