Lexicographical Neighbors of Babudom
Literary usage of Babudom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"Watch him, all babudom laid aside, smoking at noon on a cot, while a woman with
turquoise-studded headgear points south-easterly across the bare grass. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"On this issue babudom was shaken to its very foundations. The accusation was
freely spread that the Government wished to root out higher education because ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
"Watch him, all babudom laid aside, smoking at noon on a cot, while a woman with
turquoise- studded head-gear points south-easterly across the bare grass. ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1893)
"Behind him came the station-master explaining, with the plentiful plurals and
Addisonian periods dear to babudom, that without due ..."
5. India: The Real India by John David Rees (1910)
"Behar, alongside Bengal, and well in touch with Calcutta, the capital of babudom
and India, is prosperous, contented, and without a particle of sympathy ..."
6. Eastern Nights by Alan John Bott (1919)
"Cairo is a compound of sphinx-and-pyramid antiquity, modern opulence, degenerate
Arab touts, Arab babudom, reserved and Simla-like officialdom, ..."
7. The Real India by John David Rees (1908)
"Behar, alongside Bengal, and well in touch with Calcutta, the capital of babudom
and India, is prosperous, contented, and without a particle of sympathy ..."
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