Term of respect, in South Asia

Usage examples of babu.

SOME DOUBTS Babu Janakdhari Prasad was a staunch coworker with me in Champaran.

The Googles ate of the babu root, perhaps ceremonially, and they forgot, and in the forgetting they sloughed their culture from them, retrogressing four entire culture pouits.

Wisdom and Reassurance from Other Mothers on Your First Year with Babu JEAN kunhardt, MA.

Back in the city there were offices and labs where the babus who really counted made the real choices.

Only Babu was indifferent to the outburst and to the searing stare that bored into him like a drill.

Mahisha, now unconcerned with Babu, paralleled the move in his cage in a fluid, effortless motion.

Aside from these there were a moon-faced Bengali babu, a dark Italian with flashing eyes and teeth, and a stout person of bovine Teutonic cast--the type that is sage, shrewd, easy-going when unopposed, but capable under provocation of exhibiting the most conscienceless brutality.

My esteemed friend Babu Jagadishnath Ray has kindly gone through the book, a task for which I had not leisure, and marked some of the salient points for me.

Chaitanya, however, as the Babu points out, was not the originator of this theory, but appears to have borrowed it from his neighbour Adwaita Acharjya, whose custom it was, after performing his daily ritual, to go to the banks of the Ganges and call aloud for the coming of the god who should substitute love and faith for mere rites and ceremonies.

There was no babu root waiting for the ship and the trader had raged up and down, calling forth upon all Googles dire maledictions combed from a score of languages and cultures.

The Englishman is not, as a rule, familiar with the Asiatic, but he would not strike across the wrist a kindly Babu who had accidentally upset a kilta with a red oilskin top.

The masks and dominoes made it particularly difficult for him to pick out any of the Satanists whom he had seen at the previous party, but after a little, he noticed a man with a dark-skinned, fleshy neck and thin, black hair whom he felt certain was the Babu, and a little later a tall, lank, fair-haired figure who was undoubtedly the Albino.

Those Sahibs, who cannot speak our talk, or the Babu, who for his own ends gave us money?

Then, for a man afflicted with varicose veins the Babu displayed amazing agility.