Indian Flag History


By Gaurav Kumar02, Aug 2022 04:34 PMjagranjosh.com

The concept of Indian flag came between 1904-1906 before independence. It was prepared by Sister Nivedita, an Irish disciple of Swami Vivekananda. It was later called Sister Nivedita Flag

In 1907 Madam Bikaji Rustam Kama, Vinayak Damodar Sarvakar and Shami jointly designed a flag. Madame Cama hoisted this flag on 22 August 1907 at Stuttgart, Germany and became the first Indian flag to be hoisted on foreign soil

In 1916 author Pingali Venkaiah designed another flag, But Gandhiji did not accept it because it did not represented other communities of India as red represents Hindu and green Muslims

In 1917, the Home Rule League, formed by Balagangadhar Tilak, adopted a flag. The flag had the Union Jack at the top

In 1921, a new flag was designed as per Gandhiji's idea with white at the top, green at the bottom and red at the bottom to represent all communities in India

This flag by Pingali Venkaiah was presented before the Congress Committee in 1931 and was adopted as the official flag of the Committee

A few days before the country became independent, on July 22, 1947, a meeting was organized on the constitution of independent India. There the national flag tricolor was presented in front of everyone for the first time

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