POST5 August 2019, the facade of “development” in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) began to fade rapidly.

What remains is a territory stripped of its rights, its people economically strangled, culturally assaulted, and religiously persecuted, its residents pushed to the brink of extinction in their own land. The economic disenfranchisement of Kashmiris is a calculated component of India’s post-abrogation policy. Where Article 370 once offered protection against outsider exploitation, its removal opened the floodgates to corporate land grabs, unregulated tourism and settler colonialism. Small businesses are suffocating, agricultural land has been expropriated and indigenous Kashmiris have become bystanders to their own economy.

Compounding this crisis is the great demographic alteration. By distributing domicile certificates to non-Kashmiris, including former military personnel........

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