Graph of the net literacy rate (i.e. age 7-year+) in India in the hundred-year period 1901-2011. The data is based on the decadal census conducted in India in every year ending in 1 (i.e. xxx1). The raw data is - 
<p>	Rural			Urban			Total		
	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
1901							9.8	0.6	5.3
1911							10.6	1	5.9
1921							12.2	1.8	7.2
1931							15.6	2.8	9.5
1941							24.9	7.3	16.1
1951	19.02	4.87	12.1	45.6	22.33	34.59	27.16	8.86	18.33
1961	34.3	10.1	22.5	66	40.5	54.4	40.4	15.35	28.3
1971	48.6	15.5	27.9	69.8	48.8	60.2	45.96	21.97	34.45
1981	49.6	21.7	36.1	76.7	56.3	67.2	56.38	29.76	43.57
1991	57.9	30.6	44.7	81.1	64	73.1	64.13	39.29	52.21
2001	71.4	46.7	59.4	86.7	73.2	80.3	75.85	54.16	65.38
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2011	78.57	58.57	68.91	89.67	79.92	84.98	82.14	65.46	74.04
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2012-09-22
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span> from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.indiainfoline.com/Budget/Budget-FY-2002-2003/ecsu/soci/literacy.pdf">GOI 2002-2003 Budget</a> data. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2-vol2/data_files/Mizoram/Chapter_6.pdf">Census India</a>