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Flag of India* country India used by India current since 1947-08-15 created by Pingali Venkayya format 2:3 shape rectangular FIAV ↑colours #ff9933, white, green other characteristics flag has 3 horizontal stripes

flag contains symbol: Dharma-chakra

Summary

English: The flag of India. Česky: Vlajka Indie Deutsch: Flagge Indiens. Esperanto: La flago de Barato (Hindio) Español: Bandera de la India Plattdüütsch: Flagg vun Indien. Slovenščina: Državna zastava Indije Walon: Drapea d' l' Inde Français : Drapeau de l'Inde

The colours are saffron, white and green. The navy blue wheel in the center of the flag has a diameter approximately the width of the white band and is called Ashoka's Dharma Chakra, with 24 spokes (after Ashoka, the Great). Each spoke depicts one hour of the day, portraying the prevalence of righteousness all 24 hours of it.

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English: This image was created by User:SKopp. Deutsch: Dieses Bild wurde von User:SKopp erstellt. Español: Imagen creada por User:SKopp. Français : Cette image est l'œuvre de User:SKopp. Walon: Imådje fwaite pa User:SKopp. I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

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Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment current22:39, 21 September 20071,350×900 (9 KB)Zscout370 (Honey, I broke the image) 22:28, 21 September 2007(10 KB)Zscout370 (Reverted to version as of 06:31, 9 February 2006) 20:52, 15 September 20071,200×800 (1 KB)Zscout370 (Reverted to version as of 23:54, 24 March 2006) 07:12, 26 March 2006(10 KB)Nichalp (Reverted to earlier revision) 01:14, 25 March 20061,200×800 (1 KB)Pumbaa80 (Wheel slightly improved. Colors changed according to http://fotw.vexillum.com/flags/in.html#colour) 23:54, 24 March 20061,200×800 (1 KB)Pumbaa80 (File re-coded by hand. File size significantly reduced. More saturated orange. Used [http://homepage.mac.com/gratitude/PeacePath__Flags_Data/IndiaF.gif this] as a template.) 06:31, 9 February 2006450×300 (10 KB)Zscout370 (did some little compression, I will try to do more later) 04:50, 30 December 2005450×300 (11 KB)Zscout370 (Saved it as a simple SVG file) 10:11, 28 November 2005450×300 (23 KB)Nichalp (Modified colours as per the old png version) 06:31, 16 October 2005450×300 (11 KB)Zscout370 (Compression) 03:30, 10 October 2005450×300 (12 KB)Zscout370 (I have changed the colors and the central emblem to match http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:India_flag_large.png.) 04:58, 28 September 2005450×300 (11 KB)SKopp (The flag of India. Source: Drawn by User:SKopp{{Template:Insignia}} Category:Flags of India)