“Babu” in several Indian languages means’ chief ‘or’ sir ‘. The suffix “ji” makes it very respectful, as it used to mean a father as well. “Babu” was also a first name and surname used extensively in many parts of India.
In British India ‘Babu’ means an Indian who was secretary of education enough to help the colonialists tooth and nail in the plunder of India. They were known for their loyalty and said blind hatred of nationalists. This was the beginning of a negative use of this term.
Since the 20th century to the present ‘Babu’ has been an assertion of India all the bureaucrats and government officials used the majority of the media in India. A typical “Babu” is on file, handles the paperwork, procrastinates, take bribes, snobs and snubs, behaves in a copybook style, and only smiles at the company and conforms to meticulously follow a dress code. The term, ironically, challenged the class division, as applicable from the secretary to top up the official hierarchy. The problems begin here.
We embark on this tedious task of taking an incisive look at the manifestations of this use because of its generality and inherent fallacies.
“Babu” is overwhelmingly male. It is inhumane to be saying that the bureaucracy of India is mostly devoid of women. A gender bias that had hardly be tolerated by today’s feminists. But, of course, where he has been all this time?
The ‘Babu’ syndrome is based on the fallacious Marxist-Leninist philosophy. That had always been fashionable to be anti-establishment, if you can afford. Involves the establishment of people is, the bourgeois government, and all other employees in the non-governmental organizations are against the establishment that is, the proletariat. It is very tempting they can be part of the proletariat, even with a paycheck and fat to give confidence that the sentence by ‘bourgeois’ as’ the Babu. The picture is even brighter for all those offered by the NTP to the esoteric creative-professional leaning against the creation of fat billing revenue. Then, when it is absolutely creative ‘Babu’, and that helps when it was politely “babuji.
The general nature of the syndrome, it is almost impossible for the “Babu even dream of achieving any fame or reputation. They can not be creative, can do professional work and may not be sensitive people. When some of them make a good work that is ignored or not noticed the work. The “proletariat” can not afford to notice that the work to be the final seal on its outsourcing of aspirations. The “bourgeois” in outsourcing to because it is accepted that it can not. Therefore, there is only one path open to ‘Babu to achieve “fame’-be corrupt and corruption in a big way. The creative “proletariat” will stop at nothing to denounce the establishment and had a big bang of free advertising and fashion.
We are not sure if this is totally a phenomenon or India this kind of attitude to public officials in other countries. The ‘Babu’ theorem may well provide a fertile ground for analysis and reflection on issues such uncouth.
