Sarabhai family

While he created significant wealth, his children interested themselves in a wide variety of other endeavours, and the family is better known for those activities, rather than for their industrial enterprise.

[2][3] Its twentieth century patriarch, Sheth Ambalal Sarabhai, was a Jain industrialist.

He had five daughters and three sons who were involved in the family business as well as the Indian independence movement.

Ambalal Sarabhai was a prominent mill owner and also interested in philanthropic activities.

Sarabhai Enterprises branched out after India's independence and many pioneer ventures were made in fields dominated by foreign companies.