Origin of Babu: In British India, Babu was a term used to address an Indian Clerk in the way the word \u2018Mister\u2019 was used. The honorific suffix to one\u2019s name became popular in the 20th Century; more so in Bengal where the diversified equivalents, \u2018Babushona,\u2019 or \u2018Babuji\u2019 denoted deeper show of respect to a bureaucrat. <\/p>\n
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