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Pingali Venkayya (2 August 1876/8 [1] [2] – 4 July 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter, known for designing the initial version of the Indian National Flag. [3] Apart from his role in the independence movement, Venkayya was a lecturer , author, geologist , educationalist , agriculturist , and a polyglot .
The current Indian flag with Ashok Chakra was designed by Badruddin Tyabji in 1947. Gandhi first proposed a flag to the Indian National Congress in 1921. The precursor to current flag , The swaraj flag was designed by Pingali Venkayya. In the centre was a traditional spinning wheel, symbolising Gandhi's goal of making Indians self-reliant by ...
Surayya Tyabji's daughter, social worker, designer and activist Laila Tyabji wrote in 2018 that both her mother and her father were involved in the design of the flag, having been commissioned by Nehru to do so, [4] [5] as a development of a design by the soldier, scientist and lecturer Pingali Venkayya.
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The flag was designed based on the swaraj flag design proposed by Pingali Venkayya. [20] [21] The tricolour flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on 22 July 1947. [19] It was unfurled by the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on 15 August 1947. [22] National emblem: State Emblem of India [23] 30 December 1947 (Dominion of ...
The flag is based on the Swaraj flag, a flag of the Indian National Congress designed by Pingali Venkayya. [ 6 ] Khadi or hand-spun cloth was the only material allowed to be used for the flag but amendment to the Flag Code in year 2021 allowed the use of polyester and other machine-made fabric.
The National Flag of India was designed by Pingali Venkayya and adopted in its present form during the meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947, a few days before India's independence from Britain on 15 August 1947. The first ever flag flown after the independence is stored in the third floor of the museum.
The current state flag, designed by Olympia jeweler Charles Talcott, is green and depicts the state seal featuring Washington, the nation’s first president, with the year of statehood, 1889 ...