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	'''Matibansa''' ([[Odia language\|Odia]]: ମାଟିବଂଶ; also '''Matibans''' or '''Mativansa'''), in its ~~Sanskritised~~ form '''Kshitibansa''' (also '''Khitibansa'''), is a community of the Indian state of [[Odisha]] whose traditional and caste-defining occupation was teaching in the indigenous village school. Its members held the office of ''Abadhan''—the schoolmaster of the ''[[chatsali]]''—and are, in the community's own account and in the assessment of the [[National Commission for Backward Classes]] (NCBC), a literate service community closely allied to the [[Karan (caste)\|Karan]], the scribe caste that in Odisha ranks immediately below the [[Brahmin]]s.<ref name="karan"/><ref name="ncbc"/>		'''Matibansa''' ([[Odia language\|Odia]]: ମାଟିବଂଶ; also '''Matibans''' or '''Mativansa'''), in its half-anskritised form '''Kshitibansa''' (also '''Khitibansa'''), is a community of the Indian state of [[Odisha]] whose traditional and caste-defining occupation was teaching in the indigenous village school. Its members held the office of ''Abadhan''—the schoolmaster of the ''[[chatsali]]''—and are, in the community's own account and in the assessment of the [[National Commission for Backward Classes]] (NCBC), a literate service community closely allied to the [[Karan (caste)\|Karan]], the scribe caste that in Odisha ranks immediately below the [[Brahmin]]s.<ref name="karan"/><ref name="ncbc"/>

	The name ''Matibansa'' and its ~~Sanskritic~~ twin ''Kshitibansa'' both mean, literally, "earth-lineage" (Odia ''mati'' and Sanskrit ''kshiti'' each meaning "earth" or "soil"), and are used interchangeably.<ref name="sebc"/> Around this core lineage a wider grouping formed as members of several other castes, on taking up the same teaching profession, came to be counted under the Matibansa/Kshitibansa name and its titles. Thus [[Karan (caste)\|Karan]] scribes who became teachers are recorded as ''Ojha Karan''; Acharjee [[Brahmin]] teachers appear as ''Kshitibansa Naik'' and ''Kshitibansa Nayak''; and, in the earliest ethnographic account, some [[Tanti]] weavers who left the loom for the schoolroom likewise adopted the schoolmaster's title.<ref name="ncbc"/><ref name="risley"/>		The name ''Matibansa'' and its twin ''Kshitibansa'' both mean, literally, "earth-lineage" (Odia ''mati'' and Sanskrit ''kshiti'' each meaning "earth" or "soil"), and are used interchangeably.<ref name="sebc"/> Around this core lineage a wider grouping formed as members of several other castes, on taking up the same teaching profession, came to be counted under the Matibansa/Kshitibansa name and its titles. Thus [[Karan (caste)\|Karan]] scribes who became teachers are recorded as ''Ojha Karan''; Acharjee [[Brahmin]] teachers appear as ''Kshitibansa Naik'' and ''Kshitibansa Nayak''; and, in the earliest ethnographic account, some [[Tanti]] weavers who left the loom for the schoolroom likewise adopted the schoolmaster's title.<ref name="ncbc"/><ref name="risley"/>

	The community's social standing is the subject of a documented dispute over affirmative-action classification. It is listed as a Socially and Educationally Backward Class (SEBC) by the Government of Odisha, but its request to be added to the national [[Other Backward Class\|Other Backward Classes]] list was refused by the NCBC in 1999. The reason the Commission gave is itself the clearest official statement of the community's character: it held that the group was drawn predominantly from advanced castes—Brahmin and Karan—and was therefore socially advanced rather than backward.<ref name="ncbc"/>		The community's social standing is the subject of a documented dispute over affirmative-action classification. It is listed as a Socially and Educationally Backward Class (SEBC) by the Government of Odisha, but its request to be added to the national [[Other Backward Class\|Other Backward Classes]] list was refused by the NCBC in 1999. The reason the Commission gave is itself the clearest official statement of the community's character: it held that the group was drawn predominantly from advanced castes—Brahmin and Karan—and was therefore socially advanced rather than backward.<ref name="ncbc"/>

	== Names and etymology ==		== Names and etymology ==
	The community's own name is ''Matibansa'', from Odia ''mati'' (ମାଟି, "earth, soil, clay") and ''bansa'' (ବଂଶ, from Sanskrit ''vaṃśa'', "lineage, stock"). The ~~Sanskritised~~ form '''Kshitibansa''' / '''Khitibansa''' carries the identical sense, since ''kshiti'' (क्षिति) is a classical word for "earth"; both forms head the community's entry in the Odisha state list and are treated as synonyms.<ref name="sebc"/> The preference for the learned ~~Sanskritic~~ form ''Kshitibansa'' is ~~itself~~ characteristic of a literate community.		The community's own name is ''Matibansa'', from Odia ''mati'' (ମାଟି, "earth, soil, clay") and ''bansa'' (ବଂଶ, from Sanskrit ''vaṃśa'', "lineage, stock"). The half-sanskritised form '''Kshitibansa''' / '''Khitibansa''' carries the identical sense, since ''kshiti'' (क्षिति) is a classical word for "earth"; both forms head the community's entry in the Odisha state list and are treated as synonyms.<ref name="sebc"/> The preference for the learned half-sanskritic form ''Kshitibansa'' is characteristic of a literate community.

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	=== The chatsali and the pathasala ===		=== The chatsali and the pathasala ===
	The office that defines the community is that of the '''Abadhan''', the village schoolmaster. Before the British occupation of Odisha in 1803, schooling was decentralised and privately supported: the ''pathasala'' and, at the primary level, the ''chatsali'' met in temples, in Sanskrit ''tols'', in ''Bhagavata tungis'' (village scripture houses) and in the homes of the well-to-do.<ref name="pattanaik"/> The teacher in these schools was the '''Avadhana''' (Odia ''Abadhan''); according to the historian of education Subhransu Pattanaik, the Avadhanas taught reading, writing and simple arithmetic together with Odia literature, including the ''Bhagavata'' of [[Jagannatha Das]] and the puranas—that is, indigenous mathematics and religious texts.<ref name="pattanaik"/>		The office that defines the community is that of the '''Abadhan''', the village schoolmaster. Before the British occupation of Odisha in 1803, schooling was decentralised and privately supported: the ''pathasala'' and, at the primary level, the ''chatsali'' met in temples, in Sanskrit ''tols''{{Clarify\|reason=It is unclear what “tols” refers to.\|date=October 2026}}, in ''Bhagavata tungis'' (village scripture houses) and in the homes of the well-to-do.<ref name="pattanaik"/> The teacher in these schools was the '''Avadhana''' (Odia ''Abadhan''); according to the historian of education Subhransu Pattanaik, the Avadhanas taught reading, writing and simple arithmetic together with Odia literature, including the ''Bhagavata'' of [[Jagannatha Das]] and the puranas—that is, indigenous mathematics and religious texts.<ref name="pattanaik"/>

	The Abadhan is therefore not an abstract label but the recognisable figure who carried literacy to rural Odisha through the medieval and early-colonial periods. When the colonial administration began after 1854 to organise primary education, it built on this base: [[Thomas Edward Ravenshaw\|T. E. Ravenshaw]] is recorded as having supervised some 832 ''pathasalas'' or indigenous village schools, from which the number of primary schools in Odisha grew to nearly 7,000 by 1947.<ref name="pattanaik"/>		The Abadhan is therefore not an abstract label but the recognisable figure who carried literacy to rural Odisha through the medieval and early-colonial periods. When the colonial administration began after 1854 to organise primary education, it built on this base: [[Thomas Edward Ravenshaw\|T. E. Ravenshaw]] is recorded as having supervised some 832 ''pathasalas'' or indigenous village schools, from which the number of primary schools in Odisha grew to nearly 7,000 by 1947.<ref name="pattanaik"/>

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