Alexander’s East India and Colonial Mag. Feb. 162: Whatever indignation and disgust may have been excited elsewhere, the exposure of the disgraceful support which the Madras Government has systematically afforded to Idolatry, no reformation has yet been brought about at that benighted Presidency, where the fears of men in authority are practised on to obtain their connivance and participation in Mahomedan orgies and the worship of images.at Benighted Presidency, the (n.) under Benighted, the, n.