South Asia Scholar Activist Collective

The South Asia Scholar Activist Collective is a group of North American academics formed to defend academic freedom against what they describe as Hindu nationalist threats. SASAC's two scored reports — a journalist reporting guide and a harassment field manual — score 4.3 and 2.49 respectively. The reporting guide is packaged as a neutral journalist resource but draws 60% of its sources from advocacy organizations. The field manual has an 18.3% self-citation rate — nearly one in five sources points back to SASAC's own work — and cites zero sources presenting counter-arguments.