The general reading on self-determination is unclear or perhaps silent on the issue whether right to self-determination has democratic pedigree. Nonetheless this principle has been treated explicitly or tacitly by international scholarship having democratic claim. Reviewing self-determination from historical perspective makes it clear that this sixteenth century principle emerged as a ‘revolutionary nationalist’ concept for creation of State and was linked closely with ‘popular sovereignty’. It had no connection with democratic principles, which is relatively a new concept. Even in Europe and United States, during eighteenth and nineteenth century, self-determination was related to national consciousness of people. The modern concept…