Question

Who had designed the first Indian National Flag?
1. Bhikaji Rustam Kama
2. Annie Besant
3. Sarojini Naidu
4. Sister Nivedita

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Sister Nivedita

The correct answer is Sister Nivedita.

 

• History of Indian National Flag:
  • The Indian flag was reportedly designed by Sister Nivedita, an Irish disciple of Swami Vivekananda, between 1904-1906, arguably the first national flag of India is said to have been hoisted on August 7, 1906, in Kolkata at the Parsee Bagan Square.
  • 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.
  • Next year, in 1907, Madame Cama and her group of exiled revolutionaries hoisted an Indian flag in Germany 1907 — this was the first Indian flag to be hoisted in a foreign land.
  • In 1917, Dr Annie Besant and Lokmanya Tilak adopted a new flag as part of the Home Rule Movement.
  • The design of the Indian tricolour is largely attributed to Pingali Venkayya, an Indian freedom fighter who 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.