Contributors Daniel Bass is South Asia Program Manager at Cornell University, New York. He is the author of Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka: Up-country Tamil Identity Politics, and co-editor (with Amarnath Amarasingam) of Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War. He received his MA in South Asian Studies and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, USA, and has been doing research in the up-country of Sri Lanka for over two decades. A. S. Chandrabose is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Studies of the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). He introduced the Certificate in Social Harmony course for undergraduate students of the OUSL, through a World Bankfunded project on Higher Education for the Twenty-first Century (HETC) of the Ministry of Higher Education, Sri Lanka. His primary research interests are in the area of the plantation community, rural labour, social welfare and Indian Tamil culture in Sri Lanka. Zainab Ibrahim is a feminist activist and researcher based in Sri Lanka, with a primary focus on issues of gender equality and women’s rights. Her most recent work includes co-creating a platform to document violence against women, girls, and trans people in technology-related spaces. She holds a Master’s Degree in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. Mythri Jegathesan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Santa Clara University, California. She has conducted field research on the work and life experiences of Hill ix