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Balasingham Skanthakumar is an editor of Polity magazine and co-convenor of the ‘Critical Agrarian Studies’ seminar at the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) in Colombo. He has published on development policy; human rights; language rights; Muslim family law; plantation communities; local government; labor studies; and left history, among other research interests. He read law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London; where he also taught in the departments of law, and development studies. He has previously advocated for economic, social, and cultural rights; and has been an international civil servant. He is a Council member of the Women’s Education and Research Centre (WERC) in Colombo; and is a founding member and former director of Himal Southasian in Sri Lanka. He can be contacted at [email protected].

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