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Rajni Gamage

Rajni Gamage

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).

Latest from Rajni Gamage

Sri Lanka in 2025: Navigating Systemic Change, a Natural Disaster, and a Political Test for the NPP Government Domestic Politics

Sri Lanka in 2025: Navigating Systemic Change, a Natural Disaster, and a Political Test for the NPP Government

The fallout from Cyclone Ditwah represents a major challenge for the NPP administration's governance reform agenda.

A New Era in Sri Lanka?: Implications of Dissanayake’s Presidency Domestic Politics

A New Era in Sri Lanka?: Implications of Dissanayake’s Presidency

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the leftist National People’s Power…