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Meanwhile in Kashmir: Goldie Osuri, Settler colonialism in Kashmir, Manchester University Press, 2026

30May26

Abstract: Settler/colonialism in Kashmir examines Indian rule in occupied Jammu and Kashmir through historical and present settler/colonial geopolitics. Engaging with settler colonial, decolonial and Indigenous studies, the book explores how European sovereignty was shaped by settler/colonialism. Settler/colonialism was catastrophic for Indigenous worlds and generated the climate crisis. The book explores how India draws on settler/colonialism’s catastrophic mechanisms to rule Kashmir, thus fuelling the climate crisis and participating in the geopolitical settler/colonial world order. Sites of analysis include the India China rivalry, Kashmir’s political economy, and India’s indigenisation of its Hindu sacred geography in Kashmir. Through this exploration, the author argues for asserting Kashmiri resistance as an Indigenous anti-colonial struggle. The intersections between sovereignty, catastrophe, Indigeneity, and ecology illuminate Kashmir’s place in the geopolitical settler/colonial world order. The book contributes to timely debates in Critical Kashmir, settler colonial, decolonial, Indigenous, and South Asian studies regarding settler/colonialism and planetary crises.


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