The book is both a critique of existing normative theories of secession and a study of the contemporary secessionist dispute in Indian-occupied Kashmir. It offers a comprehensive examination of the right of sub-groups to secede through an empirical study of a contemporary secessionist dispute. Previous studies have employed empirical data from a series of unrelated disputes to illustrate a point. However, there has been no sustained application of these theories to a real-world case study to see how they might play out in practice. The book also provides a new way of looking at the Kashmir...