Country Tamil women workers in Sri Lanka since 2008. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University. She is the author of Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka (University of Washington Press, 2019) and has published in Anthropological Quarterly, Dialectical Anthropology, Himal Southasian, and SAMAJ: South Asian Multidisciplinary Journal. Letchumanan Kamaleswary has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Peradeniya and is currently following a Master’s degree in Development Studies at the University of Colombo. She was selected for the United Nations OHCHR fellowship Programme on Minorities in 2015. She is currently working as a Senior Programme Officer at the Centre for Equality and Justice (CEJ), Colombo. Ponniah Logeswary is the Chief Programme Coordinator of Human Development Organization, Kandy. She holds a Diploma in Human Rights and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. She was a steering committee member in Asia Rural Women’s Coalition and Women’s Political Academy. She has been doing studies on Plantation and minority women in Sri Lanka. Periyasamy Muthulingam is Executive Director of the Institute of Social Development and founder of the Tea Plantation Workers’ Museum and Archive. He has written over five hundred articles on the Hill Country Tamil Community and a book on the Dravidian movement of Sri Lanka. Buddhima Padmasiri is a Lecturer in the Department of Social Studies at the Open University of Sri Lanka and an Attorney-Atx

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