| The babus make beautiful accountants, and if we could only see it, a merciful Providence has made the Babu for figures and detail. |
| No concessions to the clamour of the babus of Bengal will retain the loyalty of this country. |
| I heard he had told his friends that the babus of Nayanjore never craved a boon. |
| Every marriage pandal would have a bevy of babus doing a headcount of the invitees, the quantity of mutton, rice and sugar used for the preparations. |
| Netas beyond Congress share the blame for paralysis. Now add unhelpful babus, bureaucrats working in an ossified system bequeathed by Britain. |
| On the other hand, India's civil servants, the babus of empire, were busy itemising every fixture in their offices down to ink pots and paperweights that were to be divided between Pakistan and the new India. |
