Thuggee in America

The Thuggees were suppressed by the British rulers of India in the 1830s, thanks to the arrival of the British and their rigorous methods to fight crime. The techniques of the Thugs had met their match.

Or had they?

What if some of the Thuggees had escaped to America and re-established the cult right here in the states? What terrors could they have caused in their new country?
 

Lateknight

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The Thuggees were suppressed by the British rulers of India in the 1830s, thanks to the arrival of the British and their rigorous methods to fight crime. The techniques of the Thugs had met their match.

Or had they?

What if some of the Thuggees had escaped to America and re-established the cult right here in the states? What terrors could they have caused in their new country?

What do think would happen to a bunch of pagan colored foreigners who have a murder cult in the 1830s -1840s in America ? To be clear I don't think that of the thuggee besides the murdur cult part but that's how they be seen in America at the time.
 
Exactly what I was thinking! It would make a great plot for an episode of The Wild Wild West. (James West and Artemus Gordon vs. Thuggee. Cool!)

I was thinking something more along the lives of a couple of half competent thugees ship of to the states, and the show follows their "wacky" exploits.
 
Even if the Thuggees somehow escaped the British and made voyages across TWO oceans to the US, they likely would have a MAJOR language barrier and why would the African-Americans consider them anything more than foreign savages to be AVOIDED instead of followed?! Nat Turner more likely would have tried to unite the other slaves AGAINST them in order to show the slave holders how it would behoove them to FREE the African-Americans to PROTECT them against these foreign devils!
 
Even if the Thuggees somehow escaped the British and made voyages across TWO oceans to the US, they likely would have a MAJOR language barrier and why would the African-Americans consider them anything more than foreign savages to be AVOIDED instead of followed?! Nat Turner more likely would have tried to unite the other slaves AGAINST them in order to show the slave holders how it would behoove them to FREE the African-Americans to PROTECT them against these foreign devils!

though that in and of itself would make for an interesting TL
 
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