India - Literacy by gender (1901 to 2011)

Reference 1: Total (%), Male (%) and Female (%).

Reference 2: 1901, 1911, 1921, 1931, 1941, 1951, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2011.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Census_of_India