sentences:  While male literacy was 67.78 per cent female literacy was 50.40 per cent.Bardhaman district had a total literacy of 70.18 per cent, male literacy being 78.63 per cent and female literacy being 60.95 per cent.See also – List of West Bengal districts ranked by literacy rate
  
  As per census definition, mother-tongue is the language spoken in childhood by the person's mother to the person.