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This study critically examined the media reportage on the Sikh genocide of 1984. From the reports, the study drew inferences on the effect of the Sikh genocide on India’s national security within the spectrum of the persistent agitation for self-determination by the Sikh people of Punjab. Despite the devastating implications of the crisis for India security architecture, much that is quite revealing has not been captured in extant body of literature on the subject of the Sikh genocide. This lacuna informs one of the major motivations for this treatise. Two main research questions were critical to this analysis: What was the effect of the Sikh genocide on the desire for self-determination of the Punjab people? What were the implications of the Sikh genocide of 1984 for the security architecture of the Indian State?