Spanning a quarter of the planet's land area and with a population of nearly seven hundred million, the British Empire was the largest in human history. In her illuminating and authoritative book, Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that advocated a relentless deployment of violence to secure and preserve British imperial interests. Elkins explains how the ideological underpinnings of violence were rooted in Victorian calls to punish indigenous peoples who resisted subjugation, and how, over time, this treatment became increasingly systematized. In a conversation with author, historian and festival co-director William Dalrymple, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Elkins explodes long-standing myths and sheds disturbing new light on the role of empire in shaping the world today.
Caroline Elkins is a professor at Harvard University and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya. His recent book, Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize.
William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, the Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Prize, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the American Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has received five honorary doctorates, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown and Oxford, where he is currently an honorary Bodleian. Fellow and visiting scholar at All Souls. He was awarded the President's Medal of the British Academy and named one of the world's 50 best thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is the founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
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