"babu" meaning in English

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        "3": "बाबू"
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  "etymology_text": "From Hindi बाबू (bābū).",
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      "form": "babus",
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          "ref": "1989, Amitav Ghosh, Shadow Lines:",
          "text": "I could see Kana-babu’s sweet-shop at the end of their lane with absolute clarity.",
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        "A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man"
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          "ref": "1888, Rudyard Kipling, “His Chance in Life”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 57:",
          "text": "The Babu put on his cap and quietly dropped out of the window",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Office babus are the real rulers of this country now. Our number's up. Best thing we can do is to shut up shop and let 'em stew in their own juice.",
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          "ref": "2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116:",
          "text": "From the prevailing colonial perspective, the English of the babus was error-ridden and characterised by over-elaborate ornateness, and for these ‘transgressions’ it became the butt of native-speaker ridicule.",
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          "administration",
          "administration"
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        "(Originally) a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official."
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        },
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          "ref": "1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Office babus are the real rulers of this country now. Our number's up. Best thing we can do is to shut up shop and let 'em stew in their own juice.",
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