| 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. |
| 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. |
| I heard he had told his friends that the babus of Nayanjore never craved a boon. |
| But, cried the Oriental in him, babus do not travel far to retail compliments. |
| 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. |
