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Literacy is considered to be an extremely important measure for bringing about equitable, sustainable development in a society and for this attainment of female literacy and female education is imperative. This paper highlights the differentials in the female literacy rate across the rural and urban areas among various districts of West Bengal for 2001-2011. It also throws light on the inter district disparity in the levels of female literacy between the rural and the urban counterparts and it also brings forth the gap in the differentials in the male-female literacy rate. This paper is divided into four sections, section one discusses the total literacy rate and female literacy rate, literacy rate in the urban and rural among the various districts of West Bengal for 2001- 2011. The second section discusses the male- female differential index among the various districts of West Bengal for both the years. The third section comparatively analyses the urban- rural differential index among the total and female population for both the years. The fourth section analyses the differences between the two years and tries to bring forth the possible reason for the changes. The data presented in the paper is obtained from the census record.