India Flag - Republic of

The National Flag and Jack of India was first flown and recognized as the Indian National Flag in Hamburg in 1942.

On 15 August 1947 the Dominions of India and Pakistan were established. India adopted the familiar horizontal tricolor of orange, white, and green with a blue Ashoka Chakra at the center. The tricolor had been used, unofficially, since the early 1920s as the flag of the Indian National Congress, with the colors representing Hinduism (orange), Islam (green), and a hoped-for unity and peace (white). More unofficially, the flag was patterned on the other example of struggle against British imperialism, Ireland. Most often, a blue spinning wheel was shown in the center, derived from Gandhi's call for economic self-sufficiency through hand-spinning.

The spoked Ashoka Chakra (the "wheel of the law" of the 3rd-century BC Mauryan Emperor Ashoka) replaced the Gandhian spinning wheel to add historical "depth" to the flag and to separate it from the flag of the Indian National Congress political party which shared a similar name.

Flag Measures 36 in x 60 in and is 100% polyester with grommets for easy flying.