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[[File:poothara.JPG|thumb|right|[[Gurukkal, Kalarippayattu|Gurukkal]] praying before [[puttara]] CVN Kalari, Ettumanoor]]<br />
'''Āśān''' is a [[Malayalam]] and [[Tamil language|Tamil]] [[surname]] and [[title]] that means ''teacher'' or ''guide''.<ref name=" Sadguru Sivaya Subramaniyaswami Page623 ">{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=a3LsUX7frW4C&pg=PA623 |first=Subramaniyaswami | last=Sadguru Sivaya | title=Loving Gaṇeśa: Hinduism's Endearing Elephant-faced God|pages=623–624 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|location=Madras |year=1998 |isbn=9788120815063 }}</ref><br />
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==Etymology==<br />
Aasaan is a simplification of the [[Sanskrit]] term "Acharya" to denote "teacher/guru".{{cn|date=November 2020}}<br />
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==Traditions==<br />
They acted as the media for Sanskritisation and literacy to Non-[[Brahmins]].<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B9SUyI-3tRwC&pg=PA155 |chapter=Literacy in Kerala |first=Kathleen |last=Gough |editor-first=Jack |editor-last=Goody |title=Literacy in traditional societies |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2005 |orig-year=1968 |edition=Reprinted |isbn=0-521-29005-8 |page=155}}</ref> '''Ezhuthuassan''' was another name in which they were known at certain regions of Kerala. Till the second half of twentieth century the [[Kalari|Asan]]Kalari or [[Ezhuthu Kalari]] or '''Ezhuthu palli''' ([[village schools]]) were common in each village as it was conducted in many families of Ganaka in [[Travancore]].<ref>''Studies in Indian history: with special reference to Tamil Nādu'' by Kolappa Pillay, Kanaka Sabhapathi Pillay, page 103</ref><ref>Ranjit Kumar Bhattacharya, Nava Kishor Das. ''Anthropological Survey of India: Anthropology of Weaker Sections'', 1993, p. 590</ref><br />
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The female members of [[Ganaka]] were generally addressed as [[Asatti]] or '''Asaatti''', because they too had engaged in teaching 3Rs to pupil.<ref name=" The Hindu ">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/2005/10/07/stories/2005100700420200.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141015115101/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/fr/2005/10/07/stories/2005100700420200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-10-15 |year=2005|first=Dileep.G|last=Raja |work=[[The Hindu]] |title=Of an old school of teachers|location=Thiruvananthapuram}}</ref><ref name="Ayyappan Page26">{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=mbkiAAAAMAAJ&q=village+schools++KERLA+astrologer|first=Ayyappan|last= A | title=Social revolution in a Kerala village: a study in culture change |pages=26–27 |publisher=Asia publication house |location=New Delhi |year=1965}}</ref> <br />
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For the last two centuries, it has not been uncommon to adopt this title by many learned people from other castes ([[Nair]], [[Ezhava]], [[Thiyya]], [[Christians|Christian]] [[Nadar (caste)|Nadar]]) as well. Eventually, the common usage of the term [[Kalari|Asan]] gradually lost its original meaning as a venerated symbolic representation for teachers, as it is found used in every parlance without any significance to its meaning.<br />
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==Notable persons==<br />
* [[Kumaran Asan]], one of the triumvirate poets of modern Kerala<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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