Sri Lanka partitioned before independence

As I think a good deal of people here knows, the history of independent Sri Lanka was marked by hostilities between the Sinhalese-dominated government and the Tamil minority, eventually leading to a bloody civil war that would take 26 years to end. Meanwhile, all this tension dragged down the economic development of the country that was, at the time of it's independence, the second richest nation in Asia.

So, could it be possible that, following the Indian exemple, Sri Lanka was partitioned at it's independence, with it's two Tamil-majority provinces (without it's Sinhalese-majority parts) being given to India, while the rest of Sri Lanka becames a Sinhalese independent state? And, if yes, how would this state have developed, without it's ethnic tensions?
 
Assuming this map is a an accurate approximation of how things would look, it would be a rather odd-shaped Tamil homeland. I'm not even sure how you would describe its geographic proximity to the Sinhalese nation. It's both east and west, and extends from the far north to almost the far south.
 
Assuming this map is a an accurate approximation of how things would look, it would be a rather odd-shaped Tamil homeland. I'm not even sure how you would describe its geographic proximity to the Sinhalese nation. It's both east and west, and extends from the far north to almost the far south.
I imagine Puttalam district would be part of the Sinhalese state, since they already were a majority there at the time. In fact, by the time of the independence, some of the territory of the Tamil provinces already had a Sinhalese majority, so, taking as base the 1911 census, we would probably end with this map:
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Still awkward, but a little less so.
 
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