The Story of India’s National Flag

<p>In this beautifully illustrated book filled with little known facts from Indian history and pictures and photographs read some unusual stories about our Republic: How the first flag for the freedom movement was created in 1906 by a pair of revolutionaries—Hemchandra Kanungo and Sachindra Prasad Bose. About Sister Nivedita the Irish teacher who became a disciple of Swami Vivekananda and created a flag for the freedom movement whose elements live on even today. About the journey of Kartar Singh the nineteen-year-old revolutionary who joined the Ghadar Party that also made a flag for a free India and who was hanged by the British. And about the genius of flag designer Pingali Venkayya who was a linguist geologist and agriscientist as well who made 30 different Indian flag designs. </p><p>As you discover these facts also read about the days leading up to India’s Independence in 1947 when the Flag Committee of the Constituent Assembly worked quickly to create a new flag for a free India. Their final design was a flag that would proclaim the country’s fundamental values of peace non-violence and sacrifice through the graceful tricolour. </p>