| 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. |
| No concessions to the clamour of the babus of Bengal will retain the loyalty of this country. |
| All we babus talk English to show off,' said Hurree, flinging his shoulder-cloth jauntily. |
| Few others had his tenacity, his drive, his sheer bloody-mindedness, to get government ministers and foot-dragging babus to yield to his ideas. |
| 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. |
