Rajni Gamage is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research interests are the politics of governance and state transformation, and development and inequality in Sri Lanka. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from University of Queensland; an MSc in International Relations from RSIS, NTU, and a BSc in Political Science from NUS. Her publications include Authoritarian Politics and Gender in Sri Lanka: A Survey (2024), Reforms in Sri Lanka: Emerging Trends in Elite Politics (2023), and Buddhist Nationalism, Authoritarian Populism and the Muslim Other in Sri Lanka (2021).