Its twentieth century doyen Sheth Ambalal Sarabhai, was a Gujarati industrialist. Fellow historian Edward Drea has called him "the doyen of Japanese military historians". Devika is the granddaughter of Telugu cinema doyen and pioneer Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu. Even the doyen of South Indian classical music Swami Tyagaraja learned his musical compositions. He was replaced by the great Carnatic Music doyen, the late Sri. It was named after the great Kannada writer, Kuvempu, Jnanpith laureate, doyen of Kannada literature. The event was also graced by Tollywood's doyen Dr. Akkineni Nageswara Rao. He has been called "the doyen of American business historians". He was described in "The Strad" as the "doyen of British cellists". Devarajan was at one point regarded as the doyen of film music in South India. He is considered by many as the "doyen of Indian literary historiographers". He is regarded as a doyen of the country set. The senior Douzenier is known as the Doyen (Dean). In 1985, "The Economist" dubbed it the "doyen of real ales". His obituary states that he may be described as the "doyen" of Australian yachting.