This article identifies the colonial imperative of ‘we must develop them, with or without their consent’, which is used by the Indian state in order to dominate Kashmiri Muslims, and argues that this notion of development combines patriarchal silencing of the subjugated as well as a gendered fantasy of liberating oppressed Kashmiri women and minorities. While the colonial nature of Indian rule over Kashmir has been a long-term phenomenon, the focus in this article will primarily be on a specific political transformation imposed by the Indian state since August 2019, when even the pretence of autonomy and recognition was given up, and all phenomena constituting coloniality became conspicuous and acute. Adopting a feminist lens, I highlight nine features of contemporary Indian coloniality in Kashmir: denial of consent, paternalism, violence, enforced silencing, lack of accountability, arbitrariness, divide and rule, humiliation and a specious idea of development. I further argue that such a notion of coloniality as development is better understood as ‘econonationalism’ (akin to homonationalism and femonationalism), where the supposed liberatory ideas are rhetorically deployed to mask a dehumanising subjugation.

本文确定了“我们必须在征得或不征得他们同意的情况下发展他们”的殖民命令，印度政府使用它来控制克什米尔穆斯林，并认为这种发展概念结合了父权制对被征服者的沉默以及被征服者的沉默。解放受压迫的克什米尔妇女和少数民族的性别幻想。虽然印度统治克什米尔的殖民性质是一个长期现象，但本文的重点将主要放在印度政府自 2019 年 8 月以来实施的具体政治转型上，当时甚至放弃了自治和承认的幌子，所有构成殖民主义的现象都变得突出和尖锐。我采用女权主义的视角，强调了当代印度在克什米尔殖民的九个特征：拒绝同意、家长作风、暴力、强制沉默、缺乏问责制、任意性、分而治之、屈辱和似是而非的发展观念。我进一步认为，将殖民作为发展的概念更好地理解为“经济民族主义”（类似于同族民族主义和女性民族主义），其中所谓的解放思想在修辞上被用来掩盖非人性的征服。