Geographical analysis

Abstract

Abstract Literacy and Education are reasonably good qualitative indicators and plays a very crucial role in the social and economic development of a country. Spread and diffusion of literacy is positively associated with the essential traits of today’s civilization such as, modernization, industrialization, urbanization, communication, trade and commerce. The present paper is an attempt to analyze the spatial distribution of population and literates by literacy, trends of differential in literacy rate, spatial patterns of urban-rural differentials and the relationship between rural and urban differential index among the talukas of Malaprabha River Basin Area, Karnataka State. India is one of the developing nation of the world, of which the study area is part, are characterized not only by low literacy rates but also by a great disparity in the literacy pattern between, rural and urban and between male and female, a disparity in consonance with differences in necessity, prosperity and opportunity to become literate. Equally striking are the regional disparities in literacy and literacy differentials itself. This study based upon the secondary sources of data, though the study area is a natural region, the taluka/ tehsils has been taken as unit of study.

Key words: Rural & Urban population, distribution, differential index, literacy rate.