History of Indian Flags
                     History of Indian Flags
Indian Flag in 1906
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Flag had 3 color, Blue, Yellow and red. Blue strip had 8 stars on it, yellow 
strip had Vande Mataram and Red had Sun and Moon on it.
In the same year, another Flag introduced Which had 
three colors orange, yellow and green and known as 
'Calcutta flag' or 'Lotus flag‘. The flag was designed by 
Sachindra Prasad Bose and Sukumar Mitra. The flag 
had 8 half open lotus.
Indian Flag in 1907
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This Flag was just like the 1906 flag, the First star was bigger than the 
others, this was the only difference between the flags. the designer of this 
flag was unknown.
Madam Bhikaji Rustom Cama introduced another 
flag and flag was designed by her self. The flag had 
3 colors three colors-  topmost color was green 
followed by golden saffron and the red color at the 
bottom. The flag was also referred as Berlin 
Committee flag‘.
Indian Flag in 1916
In 1916, Pingali Venkayya designed a flag as a 
symbol of the economic regeneration of India. A 
flag was made with khaki and flag had two colors 
with Charkha but Gandhiji didn’t approve that flag.
Indian Flag in 1917
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In 1917, a new flag is adopted by Bal Gangadhar 
Tilak, Flag had Union Jack at the top, Five red and 
Four blue strips and also contained 7 stars but the 
flag didn’t gain much popularity.
Indian Flag in 1921
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As Gandhiji wanted a single flag for all communities 
of India, So a new flag came in 1921, This flag had 
3 colors, White, green and Red. White flag 
represented minority communities of India, Green 
for Muslims and Red for Hindu and Sikh 
communities. A 'Charkha' was drawn across all the 
strips to show a unity of all communities.
Indian Flag in 1931
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Some people were not happy with that flag even 
Sikh wanted their own color, So a new flag 
introduced in 1931 by Pingali Venkayya. The flag 
had three colors and Charkha at the center. 
Congress Committee passed the flag.
Indian Flag in 1947
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After the independence, Rajendra Prasad made a 
committee to decide a suitable flag and committee 
adopted 1931 flag but with a little modification, they 
replaced charkha with chakra In this way we got 
our national Flag.