1984 Sikh Genocide

An evidence-based digital research portal dedicated to documenting the November 1984 Sikh Genocide, which was mischaracterised as the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Extensive, forensic.

Our aim is to

• Build the most extensive, evidence-led archive on the events, the cover-up, and the denial of justice that followed.
  
• Make available a unique collection of first-hand accounts and witness testimony, photographs, press cuttings, a catalogue of crimes, articles, and a news archive.
  
• Serve scholars, professional researchers, the media, writers, artists, students, and the public as a library of records and also as a living memorial to the victims.
  
• Make a wealth of materials available to ensure the horrors of 1984 are not repeated in the future.

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The 1984 Sikh Archive is edited and published by Pav Singh, a leading expert on the events of 1984 and author of 1984 India’s Guilty Secret.

Pav Singh

Pav (also know as Parvinder) was born in Leeds, England, the son of Punjabi immigrants. As a member of the Magazine and Books Industrial Council of the National Union of Journalists he has been instrumental in campaigning on the issues surrounding the 1984 massacres. His own family members were witnesses to the crimes in Delhi.

In 2004, he spent a year in India researching the full extent of the genocidal pogroms and the subsequent cover-up. He met with survivors and witnessed the political fall-out and protests following the release of the flawed Nanavati Report into the killings.

His research led to the pivotal and authoritative report 1984 Sikhs’ Kristallnacht, which was first released by the 1984 Genocide Coalition in 2005 and substantially expanded in 2009 (sponsored by the Network of Sikh Organisations, UK).

In his role as a community advocate at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London, he helped curate the exhibition The 1984 Anti-Sikh Pogroms Remembered in 2014 with Delhi-based photographer Gauri Gill, with contributions from eminent historian Dr Uma Chakravarti, contemporary Indian artist Arpana Caur; senior advocate, Harvinder Singh Phoolka, academic Dr Navsharan Singh and Indian photographers, Ashok Vahie, Ram Rahman and Sondeep Shankar. 

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His book, 1984 India’s Guilty Secret, was published and launched in 2017 by Kashi House at the UK’s House of Lords, published in India by Rupa Publications, and as an eBook in 2019. The Hindi and Punjabi versions were published in 2025.

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