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Tamils’ (13 per cent). The rest, the Dutch community could take whoseforefatherscamefromIndiaas advantage of its numeric majority plantation workers during colonial and force its will on the French and period, are called ‘Indian Tamils’. German-speaking population. This As you can see from the map, Sri would push the conflict among Lankan Tamils are concentrated in communities further. This could the north and east of the country. lead to a very messy partition of the Most of the Sinhala-speaking people country; both the sides would claim are Buddhists, while most of the control over Brussels. In Sri Lanka, TamilsareHindusorMuslims.There the Sinhala community enjoyed are about 7 per cent Christians, who an even bigger majority and could are both Tamil and Sinhala. imposeitswillontheentirecountry. Just imagine what could happen Now, let us look at what happened in both these countries. in situations like this. In Belgium, Majoritarianism in Sri Lanka SriLankaemergedasanindependent language and culture. They felt that country in 1948. The leaders of the constitution and government the Sinhala community sought to policies denied them equal political secure dominance over government rights,discriminatedagainstthemin by virtue of their majority. As a getting jobs and other opportunities result, the democratically elected and ignored their interests. As a government adopted a series of majoritarian measures to establish Ethnic Communities Sinhala supremacy. of Sri Lanka In 1956, an Act was passed Sinhalese to recognise Sinhala as the only SriIndian Tamill official language, thus disregarding Muslim Tamil. The governments followed preferential policies that favoured Sinhala applicants for university positions and government jobs. A new constitution stipulated that the state shall protect and foster Buddhism. g All these government measures, Majoritarianism: A n comingoneaftertheother,gradually r belief that the majority a increased the feeling of alienation community should be s among the Sri Lankan Tamils. able to rule a country in - They felt that none of the major whichever way it wants, e political parties led by the Buddhist by disregarding the w wishes and needs of the o Sinhala leaders was sensitive to their For more details, visit https://www.gov.lkrity. P 3 Reprint 2026-27