AHC/WI a Greek speaking ethnic group in Northern India.

The indo-Greek kingdom existed around the regions of Afghanistan, Punjab and Kashmir and lasted until the start of the first century, so your challenge is for a Greek speaking culture arise this region and still lives there with about 150m+ people.

Note: When I say Greek speaking I use that in the looses sense, they don't have to speak proper Greek the language just has to be based on Greek like Italian, French and Spanish are based on Latin.

Also if a Greek speaking culture existed how would that effect European colonisation of India and its world view

Finally even though the indo-Greek kingdom had a hold in Afghanistan, have this culture be exclusively on the east side of the Hindu Kush.
 
If you achieve this, you will perhaps butterfly away the "European colonisation of India and its world view".

An Indo-Greek society surviving in isolation is ASB.
The challenge is doable if Hellenisation post Alexander grows even deeper roots in even more territories, and is not reversed by Iranianisation, the Kushan Empire, the Muslim conquests of Persia, the Sindh, and Central Asia etc.
You can have a somewhat Hellenic society on the Eastern slopes of the Hindu Kush if you have more far more than a millennium of Hellenic societies and empires in what we now think of as Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq etc., too. A Greek continuum.
To achieve your challenge, which is that the society is limited to the East of the Hindu Kush, you could have something intervene in the past thousand years which would de-Hellenise today`s Iran and Afghanistan (in the way that Anatolia was de-Hellenised, for example), e.g. Turkic invasions, but somehow not affect the lands East of the Hindu Kush.
 
How do you get isolated linguistic groups far from their origins?

1) They can conquer the whole area, and become the dominant power (e.g. Turks in Anatolia).

2) they can create a little mountain kingdom in an area far enough from the great empires. (Basque, the entire Caucausus; all of New Guinea might count, too.)

3) it can be a religious tongue, e.g. the Greeks (Orthodox) and Armenians (Monophysite) in the Ottoman Empire, and Jews just about everywhere.


So, which of those models are you going choose.

1) is probably impossible, as the majority of the population even in the Hellenic kingdoms in the area didn't speak Greek (AFAIK).

2) possible. Get a small Greek speaking kingdom up in the mountains of northern Afghanistan.

3) well, first, they'd have to have a religion compelling enough to survive. That likely means Buddhism. Note that the Parsees of India, while keeping their religion seem to have adopted the local language(s), instead of keeping Persian.


So, 2 is most likely.
 
A group holding out in the mountains is most likely. The longest-lasting Greek community was Alexandria Eschate in the Ferghana Valley, a small city-state founded by colonists left by Alexander that did remarkably well considering it didn't seem to recieve any reinforcements after the initial settlement. The Ferghana Valley, however, was too coveted of a region between the Iranian groups, Turkic speakers, the Chinese, and others - Even today it's a hotbed of ethnic tension.

Have a Greek community hold out in the mountains and they might fair as well as the Sogdians (who survive today as the Yaghnobi) or the Saka (who survive as the Pamiri peoples along the border area of China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan). Another model might be the Ossetians in the Caucasus, who seem to represent the last remaining descendants of the Scythians and Sarmatians who spread as far as North Africa in history.
 
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