Law. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Colombo and Master’s degree in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College, London University. Anton Piyarathne is a senior lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology attached to the Department of Social Studies of the Open University of Sri Lanka. He has written two books on the estate Tamil community in Sri Lanka: Wathukaraya, Kamkaruwa Saha Wenaswana Jeewana Ratawa (Plantation, Labourer and Changing Livelihood Pattern) (2005) and Between Inner and Outer Worlds (2008). His most recent book is titled Constructing Commongrounds: Everyday Lifeworlds Beyond Politicised Ethnicities in Sri Lanka (2018). R. Ramesh BA (Hons), MRDP, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. His teaching and research interests are mainly on governance, public service delivery, institutional trust, corruption and the plantation community. He has published both locally and internationally on the above areas and recently co-edited a volume (in Tamil) to mark 150 years of tea in Sri Lanka. Balasingham Skanthakumar is a member of the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) in Sri Lanka. He has published on plantation communities; the political economy of development; human rights; Muslim personal law; labour relations; and the Left movement. He received an LLB (Hons.) and an LLM from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. xi