Calcutta flag
The Calcutta flag was one of the first unofficial flags of India. It was designed by Sachindra Prasad Bose and Hemchandra Kanungo and unfurled on 7 August 1906 at Parsi Bagan Square (Girish Park), Calcutta.[1]
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The Calcutta Flag
The flag had three horizontal bands of equal width with the top being orange, the centre yellow and the bottom green in colour. It had eight half-opened lotus flowers on the top stripe representing the eight provinces of British India and a picture of the sun and an Islamic-style crescent moon on the bottom stripe. वन्देमातरम् (Vande Mataram, meaning "Mother, I bow to thee!") was inscribed in the centre in Devanagari.
See also
References
- Singh, K. V. (2007). Our national flag. Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India. OCLC 1110172419.
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