Jaipur, Jan. 21 -- Noted Historian and Pulitzer Awardee Harvard University Professor Caroline Elkins has expressed concern over still prevalent influence of colonial emergency laws on the governance in the present day's world.
According to Ms Elkins, violence in the British Empire was systematic in form of structured and state-driven mechanism. It was not episodic and its effects continue to shape the modern world.
In conversation with renowned writer William Dalrymple at a session "The Legacy of Violences" on concluding day of JLF2026 here on Monday, she was examining with Avi Shlaim history of British rule in Palastine and related aspects including its influence elsewhere.
She felt that colonial-era emergency laws still influence gover...