The Evolution Of Indian National Flag

Flag is not a piece of cloth it's an emotions or love for which many solider are giving up on their lifes and protecting their nation. Flag is something which symbolises a country by it's unique symbols.

• 1906- The first national flag in India is said to have been hoisted on August 7, 1906, in the Parsee Bagan Square (Green Park) in Calcutta. The flag was composed of horizontal strips of red, yellow and green. The red strip at the top had eight white lotuses embossed on it in a row. On the yellow strip the words Vande Mataram were inscribed in deep blue in Devanagari characters. The green strip had a white sun on the left and a white crescent and star on the right.

Indian flag in 1906

• 1907 - This could be the flag of Madam B R Cama, called the Saptarshi flag by Nair. This flag was hoisted in Stuttgart at the International Socialist Congress 22 August 1907. The colours, according to Singh, were green over saffron over red. Again, eight white lotuses are set on the green stripe. Singh points out that the inscription 'Vande Mataram' is wrongly spelt in Devanagari script. He also notes that some illustrations show a crescent and a star, but that this is wrong. Nair claims the colour order was red, saffron, green, that the top stripe had a lotus and seven stars, and that the bottom stripe had a sun and moon with star.

Indian flag in 1907

• 1917- This one is probably the flag of Dr. Annie Besant's and Lokamanya Tilak, associated with the Home Rule Movement of 1917 and hoisted during the Congress session in Calcutta. The stripes are red and green according to both Nair and Singh (five red, four green), while the Union Jack is in red and blue only. A crescent and a star, both in white, are set in top fly. The white stars number seven in all and are arranged as in the Saptarishi configuration.

Indian flag in 1917

• 1921 - The Flag used during India’s early phase of freedom struggle white over green over red (not saffron) emblazoned with a Charkha (spinning wheel) in the centre was designed by Pingali Venkayyaa. The flag was known variously as Swaraj Flag, Congress Flag, Gandhi Flag, etc. Mahatma Gandhi called it National Flag. Gandhi in an article titled “The National Flag” in Young India in April 1921, had focussed his ideas about what should constitute our flag. Pingali Venkayyaa was then asked to modify his (Pingali’s) earlier design - a plain ‘green over red’ flag to incorporate Gandhi’s idea on the flag. The Swaraj flag was never adopted by the Indian National Congress (INC) as the National flag by a formal resolution.

Sekhar Chakrabarti, 18 February 2016.

Indian flag in 1921

• 1931 - Under the leadership of Mahtama Gandhi during All India Congress meeting at Bezwarder now Vijayawada, a resolution was passed adopting the tricolour flag as our national flag. In this flag there was a spinning wheel at the centre and it has saffron, white and green. The Charkha denoted the progress of the Nation.

Indian flag in 1931

• 1947- On July 22 ,1947 the Constituent Assembly of India adopted the Swaraj Flag as the National Flag of Sovereignty India with the Ashok Chakra replacing the spinning wheel.

Our present India's flag