But what is the history of our national flag? The Indian tricolour was designed by Pingali Venkayya, who was a freedom fighter and was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. While Pingali Venkayya designed the tricolour, on his design, the Indian flag is based. The flag, at that time, was made of Green and Saffron colour, representing Muslim and Hindu communities of India.
Mahatma Gandhi later suggested the addition of the white stripe and the spinning wheel after which the flag was unofficially adopted. His version of tricolour was first used by the Indian National Congress. A resolution was passed in to adopt a tricolour flag as our national flag. The flag was saffron, white and green with Mahatma Gandhi's spinning wheel at the centre.
In one way it reflects the political developments in the nation. Some of the historical milestones in the evolution of our National Flag involve the following:. These flags are shown here so that people know the history of India on the occasion of Independence Day and they note the diversity in various flags.
The flag was composed of three horizontal strips of red, yellow and green. The second flag was hoisted in Paris by Madame Cama and her band of exiled revolutionaries in according to some inl9OS. This was very similar to the first flag except that the top strip had only one lotus but seven stars denoting the Saptarishi.
This flag was also exhibited at a socialist conference in Berlin. The third flag went up in when our political struggle had taken a definite turn. Annie Besant and Lokmanya Tilak hoisted it during the Home rule movement. This flag had five red and four green horizontal strips arranged alternately, with seven stars in the saptarishi configuration super-imposed on them.
In the left-hand top corner the pole end was the Union Jack. There was also a white crescent and star in one corner. During the session of the All India Congress Committee which met at Bezwada in now Vijayawada an Andhra youth prepared a flag and took it to Gandhiji. It was made up of two colours-red and green-representing the two major communities i. Hindus and Muslims. Gandhiji suggested the addition of a white strip to represent the remaining communities of India and the spinning wheel to symbolise progress of the Nation.
The flag adopted in This flag was also the battle ensign of the Indian National Army. The current tricoloured Indian National flag was designed by Pingali Venkayya of Macchilipatnam in While the flag has gone through many changes, Pingali Venkayya is credited for its rudimentary design.
Sister Nivedita or popularly known in India as Bhagini Nivedita is often credited for the first design of Indian Flag. While the colour red signified the freedom struggle, the yellow colour denoted victory. On August 7, , the national flag was unfurled in Parsee Bagan in Kolkata. Now known as the famous Girish Park, this was the first time that the national flag of India was hoisted.
Popularly known as that Cama flag, this exhibited in the socialist conference in Berlin. This was largely based on the Calcutta flag. It was popularly known as the Berlin Committee flag. The third flag came up in This was a definitive point in Indian history, the Home Rule movement had set the stage for the national struggle.
This flag had five red and four green horizontal strips arranged alternately. This flag retained the depiction of Saptarishi with seven stars super-imposed on them.
At the top left corner, towards the pole was the symbol of Union Jack. There was also a white crescent and star opposite to it on the right corner.
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