| 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. |
| The public is so angry that even honest decisions are sometimes construed as favouring special interests, so babus consider it safest to do nothing. |
| But, cried the Oriental in him, babus do not travel far to retail compliments. |
| The babus make beautiful accountants, and if we could only see it, a merciful Providence has made the Babu for figures and detail. |
| Once upon a time the babus of Nayanjore were famous landholders. |
| All we babus talk English to show off,' said Hurree, flinging his shoulder-cloth jauntily. |
