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A Sikkimese lady carries a British merchant on her back. West Bengal, 1903 There was a claimed that the man was British, that he was the woman’s ‘master’, that he forced the woman to do this, and that he used this woman as a common form of transport. How true could this be? The initial claim was that this was a ‘Sikkimese woman carrying a British man on her back, West Bengal, India, 1900.’ There were several different versions including one claiming the woman was African. The truth of the matter was that the man was not british. Here is the true story  A French colonial administrator of French Indochina called François Pierre Rodier, visited an area which is now Myanmar (Burma) not on official duty In his diary he writes about his amazement of the local people who carried the elderly and the young as well as huge amounts of general items in baskets on their backs. The wife of the translator and guide Rodier was using (who he only refers to as Myint-U) during his trip is the woman in th