How did the leaders of newly independent Sri Lanka deal with the question of power sharing?

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The government adopted a series of majoritarian measures to establish Sinhala supremacy in Sri Lanka.

The government denied equal political rights.

The government adopted equality in power sharing.

None of the above

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The leaders of the newly independent Sri Lanka dealt with the question of power-sharing by adopting a series of majoritarian measures to establish Sinhala supremacy in Sri Lanka. The Tamil and Sinhala speakers are the major social groups of Sri Lanka. By their majority, the Sinhala community's leaders in Sri Lanka attempted to maintain control over the government and refused to share it with the Tamils. The democratically elected government implemented several majoritarian policies to establish Sinhala dominance, such as declaring Sinhala as the only official language of the country and giving preference to Sinhala candidates for government jobs and university positions.

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