I did look at it yesterday when you posted it. I know I read that article before, but I think it’s gotten better since then. Although I understand that it wasn’t truly a religiously motivated murder cult, it’s interesting to see that, at least from what I remember, the depiction of the highway murders in the opening of Gunga Din seems reasonable accurate.

This is just a reddit thread, but it’s from askhistorians and by a guy who wrote a real book on Thuggee:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1hj8ug3/where_can_i_find_reliable_sources_on_the/

based on this, I honestly think the British Army’s misunderstanding of the religious elements is not unreasonable, with the caveat that if they’d actually had more Indians involved in their investigation of it then maybe the Indians could have pointed out that they were misunderstanding.