The final design of the Indian National Flag, hoisted by PM Nehru on August 16, 1947, at Red Fort, had a history of several decades preceding independence.
Note various personalities involved in the development of our National flag. It may be no wonder to accept a personality-based question on such topics.
Story of our National: A timeline
(1) Public display for first time
Arguably the first national flag of India is said to have been hoisted on August 7, 1906, in Kolkata at the Parsee Bagan Square (Green Park).
It comprised three horizontal stripes of red, yellow and green, with Vande Mataram written in the middle.
Believed to have been designed by freedom activists Sachindra Prasad Bose and Hemchandra Kanungo, the red stripe on the flag had symbols of the sun and a crescent moon, and the green strip had eight half-open lotuses.
(2) In Germany
In 1907,Madame Cama and her group of exiled revolutionaries hoisted an Indian flag inGermanyin 1907this was thefirst Indian flagto behoisted in a foreign land.
(3) During the Home Rule Movement
In 1917,Dr Annie Besant and Lokmanya Tilak adopted a new flag as part of theHome Rule Movement.
It had five alternate red and four green horizontal stripes,and seven stars in the saptarishi configuration.
Awhite crescent and star occupied one top corner, and the other hadUnion Jack.
(4) Final version by Pingali Venkayya
The design of the present-day Indian tricolour is largely attributed to Pingali Venkayya, an Indian freedom fighter.
He reportedly first met Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa during the second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), when he was posted there as part of the British Indian Army.
Years of research went into designing the national flag. In 1916, he even published a book with possible designs of Indian flags.
At the All India Congress Committee in Bezwada in 1921, Venkayya again met Gandhi and proposed a basic design of the flag, consisting of two red and green bands to symbolise the two major communities, Hindus and Muslims.
(5) During Constituent Assembly
On July 22, 1947, when members of the Constituent Assembly of India, the first item on the agenda was reportedly a motion by Pandit Nehru, about adopting a national flag for free India.
It was proposed that "the National Flag of India shall be horizontal tricolour of deep saffron (Kesari), white and dark green in equal proportion."
The white band was to have a wheel in navy blue (the charkha being replaced by the chakra), which appears on the abacus of the Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka.
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