Alexander the Great usurped the Achaemenid Empire in 331 bc, captured Swat and Punjab in 327 bc, and subdued the region to the west of the Indus and fought with Porus at the Hydaspes in 326 bc. But he was forced to return home when the army refused to proceed. Some of his soldiers remained in India and its periphery while some joined Alexander in his homeward journey. When Alexander died in 323 bc his successors (diodochoi) fought to divide the empire among themselves and established separate kingdoms.

Though Alexander the Great and related matters were well expounded by scholars the hybrid communities that emerged or revived as a result of Alexander’s Indian invasions have attracted less or no attention. Accordingly, the present study intends to examine contribution of Alexander’s Indian invasion to the emergence of Greco-Indian hybrid communities in India and how Hellenic or Greek cultural features blended with the Indian culture through numismatic, epigraphic, architectural and any other archaeological evidence. This will also enable us to observe the hybridity that resulted from Alexander’s Indian invasion to understand the reception the Greeks received from the locals and the survival strategies of Greeks in these remote lands.

亚历山大大帝篡夺了阿契美尼德帝国在331 BC，抓获斯瓦特和旁遮普邦327 BC，并制服该地区的梧桐西部和326与多孔状的Hydaspes转战BC。但是当军队拒绝继续前进时，他被迫返回家园。他的一些士兵仍留在印度及其周边地区，而另一些士兵则加入了亚历山大的回家之旅。当亚历山大在323去世公元前他的继任者（diodochoi打划分彼此之间帝国），并建立了独立的王国。

尽管学者们很好地阐述了亚历山大大帝及其相关问题，但由于亚历山大大帝入侵印度而兴起或复兴的杂种社区却很少受到关注，甚至没有引起人们的注意。因此，本研究旨在通过钱币学，人口统计学，建筑学和任何其他考古学证据，考察亚历山大对印度的入侵对希腊-印度混合社区的兴起的贡献，以及希腊或希腊文化特征如何与印度文化融合。这也将使我们能够观察到亚历山大大帝入侵印度后所产生的混合性，从而了解了希腊人从当地人那里得到的接待以及希腊人在这些偏远地区的生存策略。