Up Country Tamils: Charting a New Future in Sri Lanka The first section, The Politics of Place, focuses on recent political developments among Up-country Tamils, such as the limits of citizenship, problems with public services, and the lack of justice. These issues are rooted in Up-country Tamils’ identification with the Up-country, and their perceived lack of integration in and identification with the rest of the island. The chapters by Daniel Bass, Ramasamy Ramesh, and Letchumanan Kamaleswary highlight the numerous political problems that Upcountry Tamils have faced in the post-war years, but also point to the various ways that Up-country Tamils have worked to ameliorate the alienation and suffering, as well as official indifference, faced by the community. In the second section, The Gender of Labour, authors analyse how Up-country Tamil women engage with work, whether on the estates, in the informal sector, in garment factories, or at home. While other chapters do discuss gender issues, the authors in this section, A. S. Chandrabose & S. Logeswary, Mythri Jegathesan, and Zainab Ibrahim & Buddhima Padmasiri, employ gender as a primary frame of analysis for the social and economic life of Upcountry Tamils. The majority of Up-country Tamils still live and/ or work on tea estates, which have been unionised for decades, yet the unions do not necessarily put the needs and goals of estate workers at the forefront, as the fight for a Rs1,000 daily wage indicated. Most estate workers are women, who face numerous impediments to education and employment outside of the estate sector. The third section, Beyond the Plantations, shifts the focus from the Up-country itself to Up-country Tamils in the Western, Northern and Eastern Provinces. Up-country Tamils have lived in xx