ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a critical review of literature and debates that represent the English medium scholarly record on Sri Lanka plantations in the post-war context for the last 50 years. It presents a brief historical overview of plantation studies and discusses how a range of disciplines approach writing about Sri Lanka's plantations, Malaiyaka or Hill Country Tamil heritage and collective memory, gender and social reproduction, and political and labour movements. It concludes by arguing for a foregrounding of the regional and global connections that Sri Lanka's plantations have to broader interdisciplinary debates on the reproduction of gender, politics, labour, and development.
