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List of Indian flags
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This is a list of flags used in India by various organizations.
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National flag
Governmental flag
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Supreme Court
Ensigns
Naval
Port authorities
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Military flags
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Indian Armed Forces
Indian Army
Indian Navy
Current rank flags (2022-present)
Former rank flags (1950-2001; 2004-2022)
Former rank flags (2001-2004)
Indian Air Force
Current rank flags (1980-present)
Former rank flags (till 2023)
Former rank flags (1950-1980)
The former IAF rank flags were modeled on those of the Royal Air Force, with different colours.[7]
Coast Guard
Paramilitary forces
Other agencies
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Former Flags of Indian Armed Forces
(British) Indian Army
(Royal) Indian Air Force
(Royal) Indian Marine/(Royal) Indian Navy
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State and union territory flags
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At present there are no officially recognised flags for individual states and union territories of India. No legal prohibitions to prevent states adopting distinctive flags exist in either the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950 or the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971.[9] In a 1994 case before the Supreme Court of India, S. R. Bommai v. Union of India, the Supreme Court declared that there is no prohibition in the Constitution of India for a state to have its own flag. However, a state flag should not dishonour the national flag.[10] The Flag code of India also permits other flags to be flown with the Flag of India, but not on the same flag pole or in a superior position to the national flag.[11]
Former official state flags
The state of Jammu and Kashmir had an officially recognised state flag between 1952 and 2019 under the special status granted to the state by Article 370 of the Constitution of India.
Proposed state flags
Flags have been proposed for Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, but neither were officially adopted.
Banners of the states and union territories
When a distinctive banner is required to represent a state or union territory, the emblem of the state or union territory is usually displayed on a white or blue field.[15][16][17]
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Evolution of flags
Indian polities
Colonial India
British rule in India
Princely states
French India
Portuguese India
Dutch India
Danish India
Swedish India
Austrian India
Indian independence movement
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Flags used in the Indian independence movement
Proposed flags
Dominion of India
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Political flags
National parties
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House Flags
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Sports
Educational Institutions
Sainik Schools
Central Universities
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- Around the same time, another proposal for the flag was initiated by Sister Nivedita, a Hindu reformist and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. The flag consisted of a thunderbolt in the centre and a hundred and eight oil lamps for the border, with the Vande Mataram caption split around the thunderbolt. It was also presented at the Indian National Congress meeting in 1906.[20] Soon, many other proposals were initiated, but none of them gained attention from the nationalist movement.
- In 1916, Suraiya Tayyabji submitted thirty new designs, in the form of a booklet funded by members of the High Court of Madras. These many proposals and recommendations did little more than keep the flag movement alive. The same year, Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak adopted a new flag as part of the Home Rule Movement. The flag included the Union Jack in the upper left corner, a star and crescent in the upper right, and seven stars displayed diagonally from the lower right, on a background of five red and four green alternating bands. The flag resulted in the first governmental initiative against any nationalistic flag, as a magistrate in Coimbatore banned its use. The ban was followed by a public debate on the function and importance of a national flag.[21]
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