Achar, Achari, or Acharya is a surname from southern parts of India.[1] Achar/Achari as a last name is used for girls and Achar/Achari/Achary/Acharya for boys in parts of India. The surname is a last name used primarily by members of the Vishwakarma Brahmin and Iyengar Brahmin community native to the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Kerala and also by other such priestly communities in India.
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- ↑ The word Achari is a shortened form of the Sanskrit word Acharya. But as Arsha Bharata Shilpi, Arsha + Chari is also a combination of the words Achari Ramaswamy, Vijaya (2007). Historical Dictionary of the Tamils. Scarecrow Press. pp. 107–108. ISBN 978-0-8108-5379-9. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
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- jakob, Cattiyar visscher. LETTERS FROM MALABAR. p. 123.