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5 Asia Pac. J. Int'l Humanitarian L. 1 (2024)
Dominating Demography, Altering Destiny: India's Settler-Colonialism in Kashmir

handle is hein.journals/apjihl5 and id is 13 raw text is: Dominating demography, altering destiny: India's settler-colonialism in Kashmir Mah-Nashit Uzma The author discusses the demographic invasion of Indian Occupied Kashmir, which has been in process since 1947, with a focus on post-2019 legislative and policy measures taken by the Indian State. When understood in comparison with other cases of forced demographic changes worldwide, this article argues that there is an accelerated pace towards the erosion of the political, cultural, linguistic and social distinctiveness of the native population. The article reflects on how India's unchecked sovereignty over Kashmir, its unilateral abrogation of the special status of the region within the Indian polity and its post-abrogation settler-colonial strategies are arguably aimed at frustrating the outcome of a prospective self-determination exercise covered under UN Security Council resolutions on the Kashmir situation. Keywords: Settler-colonialism, Kashmir dispute, United Nations, Demographic changes, India, Pakistan, Occupied Territories, International law I. Introduction French Philosopher August Comte wrote, Demography is destiny. This statement means that the future of a nation-state is determined by its population, trends of its growth and decline, its distribution, choices and developmental patterns. Demography can be connected to various fields like politics, economics, sociology, geography, biology, law and others. The links to multiple subjects can be attributed to the interconnection of matters with the population, and how population changes impact almost everything. The relevance of this phrase to international law can be seen from times when tribes and clans existed - the clashes and subsequent

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