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?