Contents Acknowledgments vii Contributors ix Introduction Up-country Tamils: Charting a New Future in Sri Lanka Daniel Bass xiii The Politics of Place 1. Charting Uncertain Futures: Diaspora, Citizenship and Belonging among Up-country Tamils Daniel Bass 3 2. Incomplete Citizenship of the Plantation Community: Access to Governance Institutions and Public Service Delivery R. Ramesh 23 3. Forgotten Experiences of Up-country Tamil Women in Transitional Justice Letchumanan Kamaleswary 53 The Gender of Labour 4. Employable Skills, Higher Education and Livelihood: Outlook for Women in the Tea Plantations A. S. Chandrabose and S. Logeswary 85