Vol. 2, Issue 12, Part L (2016)

Abstract
This paper is an attempt to scrutinize the trends of sex ratio (Total, Rural, and Urban), and spatial patterns of urban-rural differential from 1951 to 2011. It is noticed that rural sex ratio (RSR) is higher than urban (USR) and total sex ratio (TSR). While the USR growth rate is higher than RSR and TSR growth rate. Growth rate and rate of change where base years 1951, clearly show that extreme northern and south-eastern districts accounted for a sound decadal change. The rural-urban differential index is found to be high in the south-eastern region in the earlier start and it tends to decline from post-independence onwards. IRUD shows RSR is leading over USR throughout the decades in the state. In the last decade, many districts noted urban dominance in sex ratio.