Remixing the Past: Shoveling Lunatics in Colonial Malaya
I was looking through a book called An Illustrated Guide to the Federated Malay States. This book was published at least three times (in 1910, 1911 and 1920), and is…
Remixing the Past: An Indian Guard, High on Ganja, at a Bus Station in Colonial Burma
In the 1890s, the British government commissioned a report on the use of cannabis (i.e., marijuana) in British India, which at that time included Burma. The report that this “Indian…