The colonial project in Kashmir advances unabated. In a written response, the puppet administration has openly admitted that over two thousand kanals of land have been allotted to foreigners under the guise of “investment” in just the last two years. Reports indicate that vast swathes of land have been handed over to outsiders—often at throwaway prices or even for free—in a move to lure foreigners into the region. It is a demographic warfare and a deliberate effort to engineer a Hinduized Kashmir, erasing every marker of its distinct cultural, linguistic, and social identity.

The Revolutionary Resurgence has repeatedly exposed India’s settler colonial project in Kashmir, a meticulously crafted plan to redraw the region’s demographic and political landscape. India’s intentions are far from ambiguous—this colonial enterprise remains its foremost priority. The architecture of settler colonialism is well understood. It does not merely aim to seize indigenous land but to eliminate the indigenous people who resist dispossession. Thus, as non-Kashmiris flood the region with state-sponsored support, we must ask ourselves—how long before we become foreigners in our own homeland?

Land allocation has always been a defining feature of settler colonial regimes. From Palestine to Kashmir, colonial states have wielded land as a weapon and uprooted indigenous populations and replaced them with loyal settler communities. India’s colonial aspirations in Kashmir are no different. The state justifies this land grab with the usual rhetoric—‘development’ and ‘counter-terrorism’—terms historically weaponized against anti-colonial resistance movements. For decades, colonial powers have branded liberation struggles as terrorism, a deceitful ploy to delegitimize the just cause of the oppressed. India parrots the same narrative, painting Kashmir’s freedom movement as a security problem while simultaneously altering the demographic composition of the land.

Beyond feigned denials, the Indian state has all but confessed its desire to execute a demographic coup in Kashmir. The Muslim-majority character of the region and its defiant struggle for freedom remain a festering wound in the psyche of the so-called largest democracy in the world. To address this ‘problem,’ the Indian regime has unleashed an unholy trinity of oppression—unchecked extrajudicial killings, the mass settlement of Indians in Kashmir, and the arbitrary issuance of Kashmiri domiciles to Indian citizens, particularly members of the occupational forces. Psychological warfare complements this physical dispossession—Kashmiris are subjected to systematic intimidation, economic strangulation, and cultural erasure in an attempt to either force them into exile or break their will to resist.

This is an existential war without any doubt. The settler-colonial project in Kashmir is designed to permanently alter the reality of who belongs and who does not. With each new settler, with every stolen piece of land, the noose tightens around the indigenous people of Kashmir. The time for complacency is long past. The struggle for our land is the struggle for our very survival.