India’s new domicile law for Jammu & Kashmir is making residents anxious

India’s recent move to open up Jammu & Kashmir for settlement by outsiders is fuelling fears of another “Palestine in the making” among its Muslim majority residents. The government of India issued a notification on April 1 changing the decades-old domicile law of the region. This change comes eight months after India revoked Article 370 of the constitution which granted the erstwhile state considerable autonomy within the country—an arrangement put in place at the time of its accession to India in 1947.