Pav Singh

Pav Singh is a British author and community advocate, and the creator and editor of the 1984 Sikh Archive. He was born in Leeds to Punjabi immigrant parents, studied history in London and worked in publishing and marketing. His publishers' biographies call him a community advocate at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide in London, now the Wiener Holocaust Library. He is also a member of the National Union of Journalists' Magazine and Books Industrial Council, through which he has campaigned on 1984-related issues.

Key moments

• 2004: he took a year's sabbatical to research in India, met victims of the November 1984 killings and saw the political fallout after the Nanavati Commission report was released.
• 2005 and 2009: his research produced the report 1984 Sikhs' Kristallnacht, first launched in the UK Parliament in 2005 and substantially expanded in 2009.
• 2014: he worked with the Delhi photographer Gauri Gill on the London exhibition The 1984 Anti-Sikh Pogroms Remembered, held at the Wiener Library.
• 2017: he published 1984: India's Guilty Secret, with Kashi House in the UK and Rupa Publications in India. The publishers describe it as based on victim testimonies and official accounts, and as arguing that politicians were responsible and that the police, judiciary and media helped cover it up. Punjabi and Hindi editions were published in India by Rethink Books.

The 1984 Sikh Archive, at 1984sikh-archive.org, describes itself as an evidence-based digital research portal dedicated to documenting the November 1984 Sikh genocide.

Known for: building an English-language archive and a body of reports, an exhibition and a book on the November 1984 killings.