| 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. |
| All we babus talk English to show off,' said Hurree, flinging his shoulder-cloth jauntily. |
| 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. |
| The college in which we studied was in some ways an incubation chamber for babus. |
| The public is so angry that even honest decisions are sometimes construed as favouring special interests, so babus consider it safest to do nothing. |
| I heard he had told his friends that the babus of Nayanjore never craved a boon. |
