| The college in which we studied was in some ways an incubation chamber for babus. |
| The babus make beautiful accountants, and if we could only see it, a merciful Providence has made the Babu for figures and detail. |
| 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. |
| No concessions to the clamour of the babus of Bengal will retain the loyalty of this country. |
| Netas beyond Congress share the blame for paralysis. Now add unhelpful babus, bureaucrats working in an ossified system bequeathed by Britain. |
| Few others had his tenacity, his drive, his sheer bloody-mindedness, to get government ministers and foot-dragging babus to yield to his ideas. |
