Aasaan

Āśān is a Malayalam and Tamil surname and title that means teacher or guide.

[citation needed] They acted as the media for Sanskritisation and literacy to Non-Brahmins.

Till the second half of twentieth century the AsanKalari or Ezhuthu Kalari or Ezhuthu palli (village schools) were common in each village as it was conducted in many families of Ganaka in Travancore.

[3][4] The female members of Ganaka were generally addressed as Asatti or Asaatti, because they too had engaged in teaching 3Rs to pupil.

[5][6] For the last two centuries, it has not been uncommon to adopt this title by many learned people from other castes (Nair, Ezhava, Thiyya, Christian Nadar) as well.