From the Babu series by Gaganendranath Tagore

Title:Ati Bhakti or Profitable Devotion

Caricatures on Bengali Hindu life the caste system, the hypocrisy of Hindu priests and the double-
standards of the affluent western-educated members of society known as the Bhadralok.
Shows the enormous role that litigation played in the lives of nineteenth-century Babus. The term
Babu was originally one of respect, but became a derogatory term in the early 20th century and
referred to those native Indians who were attempting to be more modern and westernized. Here we see
a lawyer standing by a shrine where he has placed a fraudulent will. He is making an offering to the
goddess Kali in the hope that she will assist him while he goes to court on a false pretense. The
monstrous greedy hand of the Hindu priesthood is shown creeping out of the shrine ready to take the
money that has been placed there by worshiper. The captions reads: " I will offer you two goats if I win
this case".