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{{Infobox flag
|Name = India
|Nickname = Tiranga
|Image = Flag of India.svg
|Use = 111000
|Symbol = [[File:IFIS Normal.svg]]
|Proportion = 2:3
|Adoption = 22 July 1947
|Design = Horizontal tricolour flag (India saffron, white, and India green). In the centre of the white is a navy blue wheel with 24
spokes
|Designer = [[Pingali Venkayya]], [[Badruddin Tyabji]], [[Surayya Tyabji]]
}}
The modern '''Flag of The Republic of India''' has three colours, which are placed horizontally. At the top is saffron, which signifies sacrifice and patriotism. In the middle is [[white]], which stands for truth in word and actions and purity in our thoughts. At the bottom is [[green]], which stands for life and prosperity. In the middle of the white is a blue wheel, which is called the [[Ashoka Chakra]]. It has 24 spokes and it stands for progress.The Chakra or the wheel also symbolizes the Power of the State governed by Dharma. It is also called the tiranga or tricolour. The flag was discovered by Venkayya Pingali.

Gandhi first in 1921, Congress spoke of their flag. The flag Pingali Venkayya, who had designed. There were two colours, red for the Hindus, and green for Muslims. Was in the middle of a cycle. For the other religions in the white paint was added. A few days before Independence, the Constituent Assembly national modified. The spinning wheel replaced by the Ashok Chakra Lee. The new flag of the country's second President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan explained again.

The national flag of India the top band of Saffron color, indicating the strength and courage of the country. The strip between the white is a symbol of peace and truth with Dharma Chakra. The lower green stripe fertility, growth and auspiciousness of the land exhibits. Built on the white strip cycle menstrual cycle says. Wheel of Dharma wheel of the law that says the third century BC Mauryan Emperor Ashoka built the Sarnath Temple was taken from. The Chakra intends to show that this is life in movement and death in stagnation.

Are estimated using the following transfer in Indian flag colors. In flag saffron, white, green and blue colors that HTML Arljilbi and Web colors in the (hexadecimal notation); CMYK equivalent; Dye color and Penton equal number.

==References==
* {{Cite book |last=Virmani|first=Arundhati| author-link=Arundhati Virmani|title=A National Flag for India. Rituals, Nationalism and the Politics of Sentiment|publisher=Delhi, Permanent Black|year=2008| isbn=81-7824-232-X |pages=356 p.}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Virmani|first=Arundhati | title=National Symbols under Colonial Domination: The Nationalization of the Indian Flag, March–August 1923| jstor=651278 | date=August 1999| journal=Past & Present | volume=164 | pages=169–197 | doi=10.1093/past/164.1.169}}.
* {{Cite journal|last=Roy|first=Srirupa|title=A Symbol of Freedom: The Indian Flag and the Transformations of Nationalism, 1906–|journal=Journal of Asian Studies|volume=65|date=August 2006|oclc=37893507|url=http://www.umass.edu/sbs/pdf/srirupa_roy_article.pdf|issn=0021-9118|issue=3|access-date=2015-01-07|archive-date=2012-10-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010182118/http://www.umass.edu/sbs/pdf/srirupa_roy_article.pdf|url-status=dead}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Jha|first=Sadan | title=The Indian National Flag as a site of daily plebiscite| date=25 October 2008| journal=Economic and political weekly | pages=102–111|issn=0012-9976|oclc=1567377 }}.
* {{cite web| title=Indian Standards| work=Bureau of Indian Standards| url=http://www.bis.org.in/sf/pow/txd.pdf| format=PDF| access-date=1 July 2005| archive-date=11 January 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111123731/https://bis.gov.in/sf/pow/txd.pdf%20| url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web | title= India | work=[[Flags of the World]] | url=http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/in.html| access-date=30 June 2005}}
* {{cite web | title= India: Historical Flags | work=Flags of the World | url=http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/in-hist.html| access-date=30 June 2005}}
* {{cite web | title= Flying the real tricolour | work=Rediff.com | url=http://www.rediff.com/money/2002/jan/25flag.htm| access-date=1 July 2005}}
* {{cite web | title= My Flag, My Country | work=Rediff.com | url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/jun/13spec.htm| access-date=1 July 2005}}
Trevor Royle, The Last Days of the Raj, Cornet Books, Hodder and Stoughton, London, pg. 217)
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== Other websites ==
{{Commons category|National flag of India}}
{{Wikiquote|Flag of India}}
{{Wikisourcepar|Flag Code of India}}
* {{cite web | title= National Flag | work=National Portal of India |publisher=[[Government of India]]| url=http://india.gov.in/knowindia/national_flag.php| access-date=8 February 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126160054/http://india.gov.in/knowindia/national_flag.php  | archive-date=26 January 2010}}
* {{cite web | title= History of Indian Tricolor | work=National Portal of India |publisher=[[Government of India]]| url=http://india.gov.in/myindia/national_flag.php| access-date=2010-08-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809095826/http://india.gov.in/myindia/national_flag.php  | archive-date=9 August 2010}}
* {{cite web | title= Flag Code of India | publisher= Ministry of Home Affairs (India) | url= http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/flagcodeofindia.pdf | access-date= 8 February 2010 | archive-date= 21 January 2013 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130121163043/http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/flagcodeofindia.pdf | url-status= dead }}
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