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The Calcutta Flag was one of the first unofficial flags of India
Flag of India

File:Flag of India.svgFile:Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka.jpgThe National Flag of India was adopted in its present form during an ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on the 22 July 1947, twenty-four days before India's independence from the British on 15 August 1947....
. It was designed by Schindra Prasad Bose
Schindra Prasad Bose

Schindra Prasad Bose, was a follower of Sir Surendranath Banerjee and the son-in-law of the moderate Brahmo leader, Krishna Kumar Mitra. He designed and unfurled the Calcutta Flag on August 7, 1906 in Parsi Bagan Square , Calcutta, India....
 and unfurled on August 7, 1906 at Parsi Bagan Square (Greer Park), Calcutta.

The flag had three horizontal bands of equal width with the top being orange, the centre yellow and the bottom green in colour.






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The Calcutta Flag was one of the first unofficial flags of India
Flag of India

File:Flag of India.svgFile:Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka.jpgThe National Flag of India was adopted in its present form during an ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on the 22 July 1947, twenty-four days before India's independence from the British on 15 August 1947....
. It was designed by Schindra Prasad Bose
Schindra Prasad Bose

Schindra Prasad Bose, was a follower of Sir Surendranath Banerjee and the son-in-law of the moderate Brahmo leader, Krishna Kumar Mitra. He designed and unfurled the Calcutta Flag on August 7, 1906 in Parsi Bagan Square , Calcutta, India....
 and unfurled on August 7, 1906 at Parsi Bagan Square (Greer Park), Calcutta.

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 and a picture of the sun and a crescent moon on the bottom stripe. ????? ?????? Vande Mataram was inscribed in the centre in Sanskrit
Sanskrit

Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and one of the 22 official languages of India....
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  • Flag of India
    Flag of India

    File:Flag of India.svgFile:Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka.jpgThe National Flag of India was adopted in its present form during an ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on the 22 July 1947, twenty-four days before India's independence from the British on 15 August 1947....


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