sentences:  The family had been settled in the nearby Kathiawar region for some generations; Padamsee's grandfather, who had been the "sarpanch" (headman) of Vāghnagar, a village in Bhavnagar district, had earned the honorific name "Padamsee" (a corruption of "Padmashree") after he distributed his entire granary to the village during a famine.His original family name was "Charanyas", due to their ancestors being court poets.Padamsee's father, Hassan Padamsee, was an affluent businessman who owned 10 buildings and also ran a glassware and furniture business.