sentences:  He was awarded the Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship (Lalit Kala Ratna) by the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Arts, in 1962, the Kalidas Samman from the Madhya Pradesh Government in 1997 for "Plastic Arts" and the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour in 2010.Padamsee was born into a traditional Khoja Muslim family hailing from the Kutch region of Gujarat.Their ancestors had belonged to the "charan" caste of bards and court musicians.