The social world, status, or system of babus; the realm of clerks and office workers in South Asian societies.
From babua plus the suffix -dom (meaning domain or realm), similar to Christendom or kingdom. Created to describe the collective experience of the clerical class.
Babudom became its own social phenomenon in India—these educated but subordinate office workers developed their own culture, humor, and complaints that actually influenced Indian literature and cinema more than any other occupational group!
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