The story of the Greeks in Central Asia and northern India focuses on the development of Buddhism - The synthesis of northern Indian Buddhism and Hellenic aesthetics and philosophy gave rise to a more colorful and outward-looking form of Mahayana Buddhism which helped Buddhism spread beyond its heartland into East Asia in order to become a world religion. The Greeks influenced Indian artwork and astrology in particular, but their legacy was limited. The Hellenic population of Central Asia and India was assimilated into the vast mix of cultures living in and passing through the Silk Road and is no longer visible today.
What if, as the Zoroastrian migrants from Persia and the Bene Israel Jews and the Syriac Christians from the Middle East succeeded in doing, the Greeks in India survived as a visible minority (Yavana or Yona), practicing a variant of Hinduism that continues to revere some of the Greek pantheon mixed with Hindu rituals, practices, cosmology, and aesthetics? What would it look like, and what impact might it have once it comes to the attention of Western scholars?
What if, as the Zoroastrian migrants from Persia and the Bene Israel Jews and the Syriac Christians from the Middle East succeeded in doing, the Greeks in India survived as a visible minority (Yavana or Yona), practicing a variant of Hinduism that continues to revere some of the Greek pantheon mixed with Hindu rituals, practices, cosmology, and aesthetics? What would it look like, and what impact might it have once it comes to the attention of Western scholars?